Just when I thought I had gotten myself together and hunkered down to write. I find a another obstacle.
There is a new evil in our midst and its name is Facebook.
Now, before everyone calls for my head, hear me out
I love Facebook. It has helped me connect with friends from my high school days, my family (and I have a BIG family) and writers from all over. But as wonderful as it is, there is danger lurking.
Being a notorious procrastinator,Facebook is like a drug.  How can I possibly …

If you’re like me, it’s easy to get lost in …well, just about anything computer related.  I can sit with intentions to read email for five minutes and still be there thirty minutes later.  Or facebook, twitter?  Yeah, an hour goes by so fast you’d think I’d time warped my way there.
But if I allowed myself to simply fly by the seat of my when-I-get-focused-I-forget-everything-else pants, I’d never get anything done.  (And yup, a few of those days happen often.)   I can multi-task like the best of them, but in …

This weekend, we brought home a new addition to our family.   Meet Cooper, our adorable little Labrador puppy.   He’s fun, my three year old son is in seventh heaven and my hubby is pretty darn pleased, too.   It’s definitely time for us to add a dog back into the family, after we lost both of our beloved pets, Tucker and Xena, in the last year and a half.
On twitter last week, agent Rachelle Gardner made a comment about how the rest of the world just faded away when you have …

Do you have a routine that you do every time you sit down to write? Or do you just sit and write whenever, wherever you can, no matter what the circumstance? Is there specific music? A place? A location?  Does it matter depending on what you’re writing?
I think a routine is what I’ve been missing…what I think of as the “commute” to writing time. When I had the regular 9 to 5 type of job, I’d get ready in the morning,  get my travel mug of coffee and head off …