Many of you weighed in Friday on whether I should bring back WIP Wednesday… This was a regular feature on this blog for years. On the first Wednesday of every month, I would share a snippet of a work in progress, and others would do the same in the comments section. I had discontinued it out of concerns about AI
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Hey friends! For years on this blog, we did “WIP Wednesday.” I would share a snippet of what I was working on. In the comments section, others would do the same. We didn’t critique each other’s work—a lot of times, it was too new and raw for critiquing! But often, we’d cheer one another on. I got to know a
Since July 2015, I’ve hosted WIP Wednesday on this blog. It’s been a place where I share an excerpt of something rough I’m working on…and others have done the same in the comments section. WIP Wednesday has meant so much to me. I’ve set the past WIP Wednesday posts to private, but WIP Wednesday, held on the first Wednesday of
Update, 10/3/23: this post reflects my own views on the Sonya Larson case. It has been resolved in court, and you can read about that here. As an author, an executive editor in publishing, and someone who donated a kidney to a stranger, I was naturally intensely interested in the “bad art friend” literary scandal. The article “Bad Art Friend”
Update: I believe comments are fixed! The issue was caused by some work a third party is doing to speed up the site. (Improvements sometimes cause short-term problems and delays…kind of like road construction, haha.) I may be able to retrieve the missing comments. Hopefully! Hey friends! There was some kind of technical glitch yesterday on the WIP Wednesday post,
Recently a writer I know talked about not getting sucked into an online argument with a stranger, “because your girl doesn’t work for free.” I was nodding in agreement. I cut way, way back on Internet arguments and rants a few years ago. I felt like the habit could make anger or bitterness my default setting, and I didn’t want
Most readers of my blog know that I write some steamy romance. A few of you even know that in the past year, I got a new job editing “sweet romance,” which is the industry term for romance with no sex at all. I’ve always enjoyed all kinds of romantic stories and movies as a reader and a viewer, so