In an effort to step out of my comfort zone and do something good in the process, I’ve decided to finally–yes FINALLY–participate in: Brenda Novak’s Annual Auction for the Cure of Diabetes. Each year I tell myself that this will be the year I do my first online auction bid. After all, it’s a good […]
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J K Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure
At her Harvard commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.” I was so impressed with JK Rowling’s speech, as presented on TED, that I had to share it with you. It is 20 minutes well […]
Life on the Farm / Spring Harvest
Just thought I’d share some pictures showing what’s happening on our dairy farm right now, so you know this writer has a life besides writing Part of our oat crop is being chopped and put into silage pits such as the one you see here to turn into silage for feed. A tractor pushes up and packs […]
Writing Tip / Morning Paper
Here’s guest-blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with a writing tip for generating a scene. When I think of writing a novel, I read the morning newspaper to help me generate and explore quirky ideas, so I can make my characters a little different from the run-of-the mill. It is where my imagination searches for an idea, big or small, […]
Versatile Blogger Award
Rosi Hollinbeck, at The Write Stuff, just awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. She said she learns a lot from my blog about blogging and writing. This is such a compliment, because that’s one of my main purposes here at Enter the Between, to share what I’ve learned so far about blogging and in my ten-plus years of […]
6 Ways to Add Vibrant Partnerships to your Author Platform
The big lesson that I learned from Janet Conner’s sixth Plug In class, How to Build Your Author Platform, is:Writers need vibrant, creative partnerships. I’m sure you’ve heard before that an author platform is mandatory to your publishing career. You’ve also heard that in building a platform you need to blog, social network, and use video sites. In […]
