February 12, 2016

I’m of the theory that if you throw enough work at a large project, eventually you’ll pare it down to size. I’ve been doing that with my workload,  but I don’t want to keep this up forever.  In a job I once held, I worked a lot of overtime while constantly hoping to catch up. It just wasn’t possible. I now control my workload, so I need to make it a reasonable one.  I’m learning…

Last week I expressed the quaint idea that I’d be able to work on it over the weekend. I had imagined my family would support me, but they needed my presence, so I chose to put them first. Unless I’m completely desperate, I’m going to stop trying to carve out marathon writing time on the weekends. I hate when writing puts me in conflict with my family’s needs.

New Release

I Thirst, the psalms devotional to which I contributed is now available from Pelican Book Group for free (in e-book format). In the Psalm 1 entry, I talk about how an experience in the Australian outback changed my outlook on life.

Writing Projects

I am halfway through the last editing pass for Sojourner, Tales of Faeraven 3. 

Blogging

I started a Readership Challenge as a subscriber-only benefit at Live Write Breathe, my website for writers. Setting up automatic emails in a series for individual subscribers took some concentration on my part. I made some mistakes at first but am confident it’s working now.

The latest post for writers, Are You Confusing Readers?, is all about wordiness.

This month’s guest post for Heroes, Heroines, and History, tells the story of a mysterious place that marks its visitors in a special way: Montezuma Castle. Here’s a look at the place.

Montezuma Castle, image by Janalyn Voigt

I haven’t written anything for my author website, and lest I become like the cobbler whose children went barefoot, I’ll attend to that soon.