Insecure Writers want to know: What are your pet peeves when reading/writing/editing?
What really gets stuck in my computer keys is this mindset, usually by non-writers, that writing a story is easy. Now wait! We are …
What is one valuable lesson you’ve learned since you started writing?Insecure Writers want to know
So many valuable lessons, so much still to learn. I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned since beginning to write is to believe in …
Insecure Writers want to know: Did you ever say “I quit”? If so, what happened to make you come back to writing?
Did I ever say “I quit” being a writer? All the time! My logic always is: There’s no one out there waiting to read …
Insecure Writers want to know: What is the weirdest thing you ever had to research for your story?
I’m not exactly sure which was weirder, the actual research for this fact or the result of researching the fact the way I did. You decide. I was writing a …
Insecure Writers want to know: Have you taken advantage of the annual A to Z Challenge in terms of marketing, networking, publicity for your book?
Unfortunately, I have not. I’m still working on that memoir book about attending college as a mother of five. Crawling forward ever so slowly. …
Insecure Writers want to know: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out?
Have I ever pulled out old stories and reworked them? Yep! Could I get all of them published? Not always! I did get one …
Insecure Writers want to know: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader?
It’s true. I can no longer just read to enjoy a story. It was in reading other stories that first helped me to create some of my own. When I …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group asks: What writing rule do you wish you’d never heard?
Memoir must be told in story with all the story elements in place. But of course, everything must be true. And that’s why …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group asks: In terms of your writing career, where do you see yourself five years from now, and what’s your plan to get there?
If God is with me, this confounded memoir will be published and successful. To that end, I must trudge on with a redraft of my adventures in college showing why …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group: What is your favorite aspect of being a writer?
For me, I like creating new adventures to explore in my YA short stories. I like finding ways to get my kids—in the stories, in the stories!—into trouble. Of course, …