Horseradish is symbolic of my inability to grow anything. I sell fudge and fudge-filled banana bread at local venues. Farmers' markets and similar places. At such venues, I meet a lot of farmers and they are all wonderful people who are more than willing -- even eager -- to share their expertise with a klutz …
Author: florencewitkop
writer of fiction, including clean romance, distopian, confession, mystery, sci-fi, romance
Question: When you are planning a novel of 50k to 100k words, how long is your first draft?
Answer: I don't write long novels, so my answer can only speak to the length of the first draft of a 50k novel. My first draft is usually about the same length as my finished novel but I tend to rush through the first draft, so the first draft of a novel of 50k would …
Side Streets
Writing as a profession involves many things. Writers wear many hats. They find themselves going down streets they'd never have dreamed of exploring. That's me. My latest pursuit involves making advertisements for my books because writers today must also be marketers, salespersons, and publicity agents. So I found a few free sites online that allow …
The Rhythm of The Seasons
I pass the shore of a nearby lake on the way home from town. Today, for some reason, the lake caught my attention and I was thrown back into the years when we lived on lakes. First was on a settled lake near town where I taught school and Dick was an engineer in the …
Sleepy cat
Sometimes I think it must be nice to be a cat. Or any animal that exists just to exist and has food and a warm place to sleep and just about everything else it desires given to it without any effort on its part beyond giving love and affection to its humans. I think this …
Question: How do writers keep their day to day writing consistent over time?
How do I keep my writing consistent over time? I use three helps and, yes, it’s important to keep my story consistent! The first help is using an outline — in my case a synopsis that serves the same purpose as an outline — because that keeps the story on track. The second help is …
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Better Get Writing!
I'm great at coming up with excuses to not do things. 'I've been sick' is a good one. 'Minor surgery' is another. 'The cat needs attention' works once in a while. Since I'm so good with excuses, I can come up with lots of reasons not to write, none of which are valid because there's …
Extra space
I recently had some work done on my property that involved leveling a fair-sized space of forest. So now that space is empty, pretty much a very large sandbox since my property is pretty much sugar sand forty feet deep. So now that I look it over I realize that not only is it …
Question: What is the process for coming up with a fictional story?
How do I come up with story ideas? Like many writers, my imagination works overtime and, the longer I write the more ideas pop into my head, so I’m never at a loss for ideas. But not all ideas will work for me. I’ve learned over the years that I’m pretty good at writing some …
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The In-Between Book-Selling Season
It's autumn. One of my favorite seasons. (After winter, but it's close!) Colored leaves, wonderful weather, memories of the recent summer piled on top of more memories of that great summer. All in all, autumn is a wonderful time of year. Except when I'm marketing novels because I never know which books to emphasize. Summer …
