Celestial Chicken Blog

A writer friend of mine has had some good luck with getting her stuff published on Associated Content. They pay per click on your stories/articles, if they are accepted. I wrote one based on a subject they wanted (the best wedding advice you ever received) and it was published within a couple of days.
So, [...]

Have had several discussions of late with young writers online, who seem to think that a Google search and reading a few things there is enough to build an entire world for their novel.
Most recently, it was a discussion about Medieval times, that was so off-base as to be laughable. Turns out the only [...]

This morning I woke up way too early. Wide awake at 3:30 a.m. So, since it was too early to go work in the garden (weeding in the dark isn’t really a recommended gardening practice), I decided to jump in and work on the outlining that I need to do for my Two Year Novel [...]

Well, I am more than 1/4 of the way through the class, which started January 2. Up until now, some of the assignments have not had a lot of impact on me (world-building, for example, which is great for people writing sci-fi or fantasy but not so useful for people writing contemporary romance like I [...]

Really wonderful article in the USAToday about how romance novel writers are getting their due in today’s society. While book sales overall are down, romance book sales are up by double digits, something hard to believe in these economic times. Read the whole article, the good stuff is at the bottom. The title of the [...]