It’s the first week of March and we’ve already seen temperatures in the 80s here in Oklahoma. Spring is coming early, it seems. We didn’t get much of the winter precipitation that we need, though, so we’ve already been under a burn ban twice in the last month. That doesn’t bode well for the summer. Read More
Writing
Trafficking in Oklahoma: Hello, My Name Is Stevie
Last Thursday, Tulsa Community College held a Human Trafficking Awareness presentation. I attended not only as part of my Intercultural Communications class but because of my interest in the topic through The Sad Girl. I was planning on taking a bunch of notes for this post, but it didn’t quite work out that way. As Read More
Checking My Reading and Writing Goals for January
How did I do with meeting my goals this month? It looked okay at first, but if I stay at this pace throughout the year, I’ll miss my intended target by almost 48,000 words. I definitely need to up my game.
From One Writer to Another: Getting Started
What’s something you wish you had known when you were getting started writing? I made a new friend the other day. I met a lady at a church event who asked me what I did for a living. When I replied that I was a writer, she mentioned that her daughter was working on a young Read More
How I Used Song Lyrics in The Sad Girl
When I wrote The Sad Girl, there were several lines from songs that I wanted to use in the book, because they really fit the scene, or because Danny was a fan of the artist. I had to do a lot of research into how to go about using song lyrics in a manuscript, and Read More