Writing practice and a book recommendation

There’s a lot of advice out in the wild for people who are trying to write. Unfortunately, making this advice usable often requires figuring out what writing niche you belong in.  Fiction or non-fiction? Poetry? Literary or genre? What’s the difference between the last two? Women’s fiction? Cozy mysteries? Why does ‘cozy’ sound so insulting, [...]

Writing, writing, writing like Napoleon **

I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]