Browser History

I love collecting humor about writers and I have seen a lot of memes about a writer’s browser history. Myself, I have looked into how to embezzle billions of dollars from a large investment company, how to foil security systems, and how to follow a car on the freeway. All for a Romance novel. Imagine how back it could be for someone writing a paranormal or a vampire Romance. Or even a mob Romance.

You Can Teach a Workshop Online

Many Romance Writers of America chapters offer online writing workshops for members and nonmembers. They cover a wide variety of topics like: 50 Ways to Leave Your Muse (Joy E. Held), Building Your Street Team (Penny Sansevieri), and Creating Compelling Characters (Ally Broadfield). My chapter offers all of these classes and more plus occasionally How to Teach a Workshop. The RWR magazine that is included in National membership is urging people to teach.

Virtual Writing Groups

You may have heard me speaking about various online groups like Scribophile and the National Novel Writing Month various activities. I love the heck out of these because when the unexpected happened, I still had connections to my writing friends. I started sprinting for 30 minutes twice every day. I’m almost half way to my goal of 10K words for April. Lots of good things have come to me from these great connections.

Ergo Wrap-up

Oh, doesn’t that sound like a warm, lavender-scented blanket that you crawl into after typing all day? Relaxes all your aches and pains and stiff joints. For a limited time, you can get the Ergo Wrap-up in any color or pattern you wish, because they totally don’t exist and you have to make them up in your head. But you’re a writer so it’s easy. Well, back to our topic.

Writers Need Ergonomics

Note: The tumult with Romance Writers of America has bumbled on with no real resolution. A whole page and a half of publishers have stated that they cannot risk publishing authors who are connected to RWA at this time. My own chapter has sent a letter to the Board outlining what they need to see before they can continue to be part of the organization. Everyone seems to agree that the President of the board needs to step down or be removed. I’m not sending in my dues until I see this happen. I didn’t want to spend the whole blog talking about it, but some people don’t get the updates. Now you know.

Courtney Milan Versus the World

I don’t even know how to start with this subject. I am wrapped up in it because I am a member of Romance Writers of America and PAN (Published Author Network) so I am getting information about the situation whether I want to or not. Let me say that Courtney Milan, a Chinese-American romance novelist, is highly successful and would never attack a person about their writing. She might, however, attack their writing.

Mod Bod

Mod is an abbreviation for either modular or modern. I grew up in the age of the Mod Squad but also modular housing and furniture. Lately, I’ve had dreams where I could pull out part of my body and shape it into anything I wanted. Firmer boobs, bigger butt, smaller waist, and get rid of the double chins. All of these options are available through modern surgery, but cost way more than just pulling and pushing flesh around.

Writers Need Laptops!

When you finish your manuscript and it’s been looked over by all the appropriate people and edited, you need to start sending it out. And of course to get to this point you probably used your desktop computer. A 21.5-inch monitor so you can see everything clearly. An awesome keyboard that lets you type ergonomically. A stand/sit desk for flexibility. And a CP that has all this stuff. The tower even says Aspire on it.

Healthy and Obese

As I approach my 65^th birthday, I am realizing my excess fat is too much at home on my body to be shifted easily. For a writer, I am fairly active. I have set appointments to walk twice a week for a distance of about 1.4 miles. We often dawdle because we have our dogs with us and we are neither as young as we used to be. But we are Nature Bathing with the trees, the mountains, the wildlife, and the lake around which we walk.

D.P. Lyle Shares His Wisdom

You no doubt have accepted the fact that my membership in Romance Writers of America has been totally wonderful for me and that I encourage everyone, no matter what they write, to join up and start networking. Having D.P. Lyle come to speak to us is merely one of the amazing benefits of belonging to this group.