Recently I was in Hawaii for a much needed vacation. Something in beautiful Kauai stirred my creative juices. I heard about
Christina Katz’s book,Get Known Before The Book Deal, and decided to buy the e-book on my iPad. Before long, she was hitting all my writing buttons. She has a conversational style that made me feel like she was talking to me. By the time I finished reading her book, I realized that I’d only scratched the surface of the written word’s cyber-network.
Now I’m reading
Showing & Telling by Laurie Alberts. I can see why she’s an expert on the topic. We all know that it’s better to show than to tell, but she guides you through the art of balancing the two. I like the way she defines scenes and summaries in her introduction with great examples to distinguish one from the other. Right away, I picked up important nuggets that I can apply to my writing. I can’t wait to finish reading the book.
On the home front, it turns out that I was needlessly worried about my mother’s first mini-vacation with a tour group since recovering from her surgeries. She returned in one piece, all the better for having taken the plunge. It’s proven to her that there is life outside her home even if she isn’t as mobile as she used to be.
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