Organzing my Year Part 3: Paper Trails

Part of organizing your life is learning exactly what works for you. By trial and error and much money spent on shiny new organizers, I’ve learned that I’m not an organizer kind of girl. I like the idea of them, but the practice always drops off around the middle of...

Organzing my Year Part 2-All the Things (Apps Version)

I’ve become a fairly organized person, which completely shocks my friends and family, considering that I was the ultimate wasted eighties head-banger. Spontaneity was my middle name. Actually, I just liked to think of it as spontaneity. It was more like flake, as in...

Organzing my Year Part 1-Craft with a Capital C

Like gazillions of people around the globe I want to start 2015 off better. Better than I was before. Better… stronger… faster… Like the six million dollar writer. Huh. I wish. Though resolutions are often sneered at, Chuck Wendig, writer extraordinaire, puts it...

Craziness, Juggling and a Blanket Apology

Velvet Undercover is almost in the books so to speak and I have thrown my energies behind Fall River, my latest adult novel. I’m hoping to have that finished by mid December so my agent and I can revise it and get it out to editors come January. Then I’ll...

Time Management

I’m doing a time tracking exercise for my college course. What I’ve discovered: Time management isn’t an issue because I aint got no time to manage. Take away my hour of collapse time with wine and a book or TV at the end of the day and I’m...