Insecure Writer's Support Group ( #IWSG ) - September

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join and read other posts on the blog hop.

I have a book release on September 13th. Love Undercover. I'm excited, but I have been busy moving, starting a new job, and fighting with my internet connection to do much about it. No stress. I'll be a promoting machine once I settle down the other things in my life. 

This is a blog hop. Click here to see what others are insecure about this month.

Insecure Writer's Support Group ( #IWSG ) - Dang that's good!

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join and read other posts on the blog hop.

His co-hosts for this month are: Sarah Foster, Joylene Nowell Butler, Lily Eva, and Rhonda Albom!

I recently read a book that I absolutely loved. Shadow’s Soul by Jami Gray. I’m not trying to plug it or anything, but when you enjoy something you want the world to know, right? As I read it I kept thinking, why the heck can’t I write like that? Descriptive without being overbearing with it. Usually descriptions bore me, but these were so well done that I was amazed.

    The characters were so developed that I feared they’d fly out of my Kindle. This vivid type of writing is what I’m aspiring towards as a writer. The good news is that I get better with each book I write (thanks to some fabulous beta readers and editors), but I want to be fan-freakin-tabulous right now! 

   By the way that strange word reminds me of an SKism  from the A to Z challenge. Her posts were so funny.

This is a blog hop. Click here to see what others are insecure about this month.

Ever read a book that makes you cower as a writer?

I have book coming out in September and am having a cover reveal. If you want to sign up, click here. 

Insecure Writer's Support Group ( #IWSG ) - Oops!

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join and read other posts on the blog hop.

His co-hosts for this month are:
Krista McLaughlin, Kim Van Sickler, Heather Gardner, and Hart Johnson!

Raise your hand if you ever thought you set a blog post to go live on a certain date and time, but the next thing you know, you hit the Publish button and its out there for the world to see? Grrrrr.

There are two options when this happens. Rush and take it off (having your Triberr mates share a link to nothingness and your interested followers scratching their head wondering where the post went) or leave it. Both are annoying. 

Here's to a blooper free blogging month.

#IWSG The loss of a phenomenal woman

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join. 
The co-hosts for this week are C. Lee McKenzie, Tracy Jo, Melanie Schulz,and LG Keltner! 


The world lost a great woman last week, Dr. Maya Angelou. I wonder if a woman who was so profound in her writing ever felt insecure. If she did then she squashed it and moved forward with the quickness. A wonderful example to all.

Here she is reading one of my favorite poems. May she rest in peace. 

Insecure Writer’s Support Group

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join. 

I’ll admit it. A to Z has zapped (would have been a great Z word) me of all my blogging energy. Nothing to share with you wonderful people at IWSG, but this little poster of words.

I’m choosing lousy. It makes me remember Leave it to Beaver.

Beaver: Gee Wally, that lousy Eddie Haskel…

I never did understand why Wally was friends with the trouble making brown noser.

Which word are you choosing?

IWSG

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join.

I haven’t written anything of a fictional nature in over a month. I’ve been writing blog posts and interviews in order to promote my new book, Midwife To Destiny, but it’s not the same.

I’ve run into a wall when it comes to writing. I refuse to call it writer’s block. Instead let’s call it Nana’s fictional writing hiatus. Doesn’t that sound better?

The cause is staring me in the face and refuses to move. I started a romance a few months ago and it took a horribly wrong turn and now I’m not sure how to fix it or if I should just carry on with it and attempt to fix it later. And yet if I keep going with it the story continues to go in a whole different direction than if I go back and fix it.

My answer to these plaguing back and forth issues? Hiatus. Once I ingest enough chocolate courage I’ll sit back down in front of the piece and either tear it apart or retire it for good. I’ll let you know.

Insecure Writer’s Support Group - Editors rock!

A huge thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for starting IWSG. If you’d like to be supported as a writer then this group is for you. Click on Alex’s name to join.

I’d like to praise all great editors everywhere who help us writers to look so good. Sure, I came up with the idea for the story, sat my behind down and wrote my heart out, reviewed and edited my work until I felt nauseous, gave it to my beta readers, edited some more and then took the risk to query a publisher.  Being told they’d publish my work had me jumping up and down.

Then the real work began. My editor worked a miracle on my piece and made it fabulous. Way better than it had been going into round one.  Which made me wonder how good of a writer I was to begin with. Huge sigh. How come I didn’t see all of these blaring mistakes such as overused words, adverbs aplenty, and echoes galore?  How come I didn’t know that I needed to add more emotion to my character? Or worse yet, how to do it without her guidance.

Praising all editors.  Hip, hip, hip hurray!