I have a friend who’s considering getting a pellet grill. As I’ve had mine for over a year now, and I use it at least once a week (if not more) I figured that I had some opinions on the matter that I could let y’all know about. A pellet grill is basically an oven […]
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I spent last week in Lincoln City, OR, at the Master Publishing Workshop held there. (www.DeanWesleySmith.com/workshops) I attended the first version of this workshop back in 2013. It was what convinced me I could quit the day job and start writing full time. While a lot of the information presented this year was not new
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Wednesday of this last week, I had an appointment downtown. Generally, I try to schedule my appointments for the afternoon, so I can still writing in the morning. On Wednesday, no such luck. But I felt good Wednesday morning. I had brain power. I knew what the next scene was. I really wanted to write.
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I’ve decided that the next time a writer asks me for that one piece of advice I’d like to give every writer, I’m going to tell them this: Buy a hat. No, not because I have some milliner friends who need the support. But because writers, and particularly brand new beginning writers, need to understand
I’ve returned from the week-long anthology workshop. My brain is still pretty mushy. I’m much better this time than I have been, coming back from other workshops. A big part of that is due to my sweetie who took care of me and played supportive spouse. Part of it was because I slept all through
NOTE: I am fine. Just bruised and battered. Number 1: I fell off a ladder this past Saturday. Got a bruise the size of my palm on my right butt cheek. My right knee was about twice the size as my left. Wrenched my right shoulder and neck pretty good. What really impressed me is
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Like many writers, I create soundtracks for the novels I write. Not every novel. But frequently. The current novel, Spoiled Harvest has had a soundtrack for a very long time. Since the 2015 season of The Voice. (It has a lot of Sawyer Fredricks on it.) (The soundtrack for Tainted Waters was created during a different Voice
I have a confession to make. I watch reality TV shows. Not things like “The Bachelorette” or “Big Brother.” No, they’re shows where the contestants must have talent. Like “Face Off,” “So You Think You Can Dance,” “The Voice” or even “Project Runway.” In the early days of “Project Runway”, when it was more about
So I had the one week in January when I felt awesome. Followed by two weeks of yuck. I still made my word count every week (10,000 words). Though they were mainly non-fiction words, they were still “salable” — I finished off the next Business for Breakfast book, and started writing the script for the next
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About a year and a half ago, I quit the day job to become a full time…entrepreneur. I’m not writing full time. I only write in the mornings, as well as a couple of evenings per week. I did not write as many words this year as I would have liked. I wrote more this year
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