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Blogging Award – Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Posted on January 31, 2015 Leave a Comment
I’ve been nominated for the Very Inspiring Blog Award by WONDERFUL lady that I haven’t actually met before except through Skype. You can find her HERE The Rules of the blog are to share seven things about yourself, link to the blog of the person who nominated you and nominate eight more people for the Inspiring Blogs […]
Blogging Award – Sisterhood of the World
Posted on January 30, 2015 2 Comments
It’s award “season” again, and I have three to post in the next couple of days. Here’s the first one. Thank you Justina Luther, for nominating me for this blogging award! If you love imaginative fiction, you’ll love Justina’s stories. Click here to enter Justina’s magical world of fiction. To say a bit more in […]
A Season and a Time for Everything
Posted on January 22, 2015 2 Comments
The Birds used verses from Ecclesiastes 3 to say “To everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn.” It’s not even a year old yet. But it might be undergoing a bit of a change again. In November, I challenged myself to post three times a week. It’s been getting a bit […]
Avoiding Cynicism
Posted on December 4, 2014 1 Comment
It’s easy to get discouraged and cynical these days – and I don’t even watch the news. You know the saying “no news is good news”? I avoid watching the news for that reason. But I’m actually talking about writing. Sometimes no news won’t turn out to be good news. I think it’s human nature […]
My Next Step – Part 2
Posted on November 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
I’m moving on. Meghan’s Choice is in the hands of two publishers and is entered into two contests. I have been advised to let her go for awhile and move on. What are my options? Let’s look at them. I could start the sequel, Rose’s Redemption. But I really feel like that’s putting the cart […]
NaNoBloMo – not this year
Posted on November 4, 2014 Leave a Comment
There’s the NaNoWriMo challenge which a bunch of friends of mine are trying to write a 50,000-word novel or that word count this month. There was another challenge, and I was tempted, the NaNoBloMo – which is to put up a blog post every day. I can’t do that either, but I will attempt to […]
The Next Step
Posted on October 1, 2014 3 Comments
Writing is a process, and this blog talks about my writing process. Over this last weekend, I was in St. Louis at a writer’s conference to pitch my novel and try to either get an agent or a publishing house interested in Meghan’s Choice. I’ll talk a bit about Meghan’s Choice on a different post […]
My Writing Process Blog Tour
Posted on September 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
I want to thank the talented Justina Luther for inviting me on this lovely blog tour. Check out her blog! She loves to write fiction, and she’s prolific. Visit her blog by clicking here. I also want to thank everyone who has read, commented on, liked, and followed my blog! I love writing and sharing […]
My Lovely Blog Award
Posted on September 15, 2014 3 Comments
What would I do without Justina Luther? She is one heck of a lady! Thank you so much, Justina Luther, visit her blog here, for nominating me for this award! It means a lot. Justina is a very generous person. She passes along her good fortune to me! Here’s the rules for this award: You […]
The Liebster Award
Posted on September 12, 2014 Leave a Comment
Thank you to Justina Luther for nominating me for the Liebster Award. I definitely need to read more blogs myself if I expect my blog to be read by others. So – thanks again Justina, for stretching me. Here’s a link to her blog: http://justinaluther.wordpress.com The rules are as follows: Link and thank the person […]
Donna L.H. Smith 