Celestial Chicken Blog

How’s that for a blog title? I finished the second book of the month, per my New Year’s Resolution. And it’s still two weeks until the end of the month! Whee!! This one was a romance by Johanna Lindsey, one of my favorite period writers. I’ve been reading her for years. [...]

This was the third week of the Two Year Noveling class. So far so good, I’ve finished each exercise with minimal effort and on time. The fist assignment was so small as to be almost not worth doing, the second one a bit harder, and finally, the third one seems to be getting [...]

I set only one resolution for myself this year. I will read two books a month, 24 books this year. I am going to take it easy on myself, so that if I read three books one month I will only have to read one the next. I do not read nearly [...]

About a year ago or so, I bought a book called The Write-Brain Workbook: 366 Exercises to Liberate Your Writing by Bonnie Neubauer. The idea is that there is a prompt for every day that is supposed to get your brain moving and your fingers writing. I write every day but cannot imagine writing [...]