Photo by Michele Venne I'm on week four, and my streak is still going! A daily writing habit has been on my goal list for 2026, and ten months in, it's finally happening. Because I write by hand in spiral notebooks, seeing how many notebooks I've filled gives me an...
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Changing Seasons
Photo by Michele Venne Some parts of the country are lucky and experience four seasons. Where I live, we get warm and scorching. In recent years, we have had hurricane spinoffs that have snapped the heat and humidity. We had one last week... next week we're back into...
Better Questions Get Better Answers
Photo by Michele Venne We're closing in on the last lecture in the class I'm taking from Better-Faster Academy. I'm finding I don't have many questions regarding the information presented in the lectures. I still write an answer to the questions posed by the teacher....
Moving Forward, Even If It’s Not Fast
Photo by Michele Venne I feel good that I've written in my WIP every day this week. Some days I filled several pages. Some days I wrote just one page. Not because I couldn't think of what to write. Not because I didn't have time during the day to write. But because I...
Paths to the Manuscript
Photo by Michele Venne I've been listening a lot to the Quitcast, the podcast with Becca Syme. I've been searching for three years for answers, and I finally found a place that gives me hope I'll find them. The 50 or 60 episodes I've listened to so far aren't about...
The End of Romantic Suspense
Photo by Michele Venne Romantic suspense has been my favorite subgenre since I discovered it forty years ago. It's also the main subgenre I write in. Even when my stories have paranormal aspects, I still consider them suspense. I've mentioned before that I write...