JaneD

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Just wanted to wish everyone overflowing peace, joy, love, and productivity in the coming year! ❤️🎉🍾📖 Newsletter Signup Facebook Twitter Instagram Linkedin

Turtle Pace Hi there! This is me. I’m the turtle. Don’t ask me where July and August went. It was June and then suddenly I was sending my kids off to school.   🤷‍♀️  Not gonna lie—summer is my favorite. I love the varied laxness and chaos, not having to set my alarm, the ability

Summertime. Ahhhh. I blinked, and June disappeared.  It happens every year. It’s like I’m holding my breath through May, ready to exhale, relax, and have time to really focus on writing—preferably by the pool. And the next thing I know, I’m buying the kids new backpacks and gearing up to readjust to the school year routine.

Villains I’m still plugging along, tortoise-style. This scene that has given me fits for a month is finally starting to take shape one little nugget at a time. And it’s had me thinking a lot about villains—not only remembering how to spell it (why do I always want to put the i before the a?) but also

Getting Unstuck Man, it’s a process. Open a door, head down the dark passage, hit a wall, backtrack, open another door, repeat. Eventually, you find the one direction that has light and doesn’t dead-end, and voila! Your story is on its merry way again. In my last post, I talked about being stuck on this

Arrgh. Stuck. Real time writer’s log, April 23, 2021: I’m stuck. 😐 Stalled, really, and I can’t figure out why. So I’m writing a post about it because none of my other tricks have worked, and sure, I could be actively trying to figure it out by doing actual writing/editing in Scrivener, but right now,

A Community Spawns Friends To piggyback on my last post, this seems like a good place to pause and give a big shiny-freaking-unicorn shout-out to my special writer group (totally spawned from the aforementioned writing community) because my own journey would not be happening without them. Writing can be a lonely vocation, but it most

A Writing Community Writing is a notoriously solitary endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. Who knew? This Age of Technology we live in is a beautiful thing. Why not use it to make connections with other writers? It may be the best thing you ever do for your book (and your writing sanity). 😜

First Lesson Learned How hard can it be to write a novel? You just start at the beginning and write until you reach the end, right? Y’all. If you were wondering, it’s much harder than it looks. That was my first mistake, right out of the gate. I had characters, setting, and a premise. It escaped

Inspiration or Lack Thereof: Part 2 Did the setting come inherent to your plot and/or characters? Or was that a decision in itself? When I decided to go ahead and start writing this novel I’d always wanted to write, I had no clue what it should be about or where it should take place. After