by Margaret | Jan 15, 2015 | Titbits
I thought today would be a good day for a roundup of interesting places I’ve come across in my wanderings online, that I’d like to visit in my meanderings on-land! Mother’s Shipton’s Cave & Petrifying Well This is a tourist site, yes, but...
by Margaret | Jan 9, 2015 | process
I just published my second novel. Ta-da! In many ways, it was more of a learning process than publishing the first one. Here, two of my biggest editing lessons: 1) Do Not Let Expectations Run the Show! This was a lesson I seem to learn over and over again, this time...
by Margaret | Dec 30, 2014 | creativity, process, writing life
As promised, here’s the report-back from my attempt to start a new creative habit, “From the Frontline,” as it were. The effect of attaching a new task (writing 3 pages of flash fiction) to a weekly task (laundry) was … postponement: “Well, the...
by Margaret | Dec 23, 2014 | creativity, process, writing life
I’ve read so much about creative habit formation recently that the following information can not be fairly attributed to any one source. However, I know that Agile Lifestyle does very thorough research, so if you’d like more detail, definitely visit his...
by Margaret | Dec 18, 2014 | language, reading
Along with Girl Scout cookies and Boy Scout popcorn, one of the more recent fundraising gigs that schools have picked up is magazine subscriptions. This year, I bought one for pure fascination: Town & Country. I received the first issue today. From its website, I...
