WritingThoughts

I’ve been interviewed by Doris of Home Office Women for my work on Work From Home Momma. You can read the interview  here. Doris runs a great blog that features interviews, product reviews, and general advice for all “home office women” (women who work from home). If you work from home (and I know that […]

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Over the years I’ve noticed that there are two styles of parenting that seem to go hand-in-hand with two styles of working. I’ve noticed that some parents are competitive in the way that they parent, just as some workers are competitive in the way that they work. Other parents are cooperative in their parenting, just […]

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Lately, I seem to have an obsession hobby with of checking Technorati. Even though I’ve been blogging for nearly nine months now, I’d never actually taken the time to look closely at the blogs in the Technorati popular list. Now that I have looked, all I can say is that it’s a good thing that […]

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Do you use a writer’s notebook to keep track of your ideas? Currently, I use a lot of files for drafts of future posts and projects. I do have a notebook in my purse as well. Lately, I have been thinking of putting a writing notebook on my nightstand since I seem to get a […]

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Today’s “Of Note” blog is the writer’s blog by dana prince. I’ve been following this blog with interest for a few months and it’s time to share it with you. Dana describes her blog, in part, as “the blog for writers and those who dream of writing for a living …” This blog certainly fits […]

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This is a question for the work-at-home moms out there who,  like me, opted to start a home business in order to find more time for their families. Will you continue to work at  home after all of your kids are grown? This is a question that I’ve thought about from time to time. It’s […]

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This week’s writing blog “of note” is Michael Stelzner’s Blog Writing White Papers. Although it’s a blog designed specifically around a particular type of writing, there is enough of general interest in his posts that writers of all types can learn something. Recent posts of interest include: Who Inspires Your Writing – Does someone inspire […]

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A few weeks ago Mary Emma Allen, the home business guru behind b5media’s excellent Home Biz Notes blog, asked me to blog about what it was like for me to operate a home business and oversee the care of someone with Alzheimer’s disease. At first I was hesitant. First of all, my father’s death earlier […]

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Back when I wrote Words, Wrongly Used I thought that I had, in a nutshell, listed the ways that writing should not ever be used. Well, let me be the first to say that nothing is ever as simple as it seems and that I was wrong. When I listed item number 2 (words that […]

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Yesterday a commentator asked me about voice in writing. Her question was whether or not it was possible to write using two entirely different personalities. (My link to her here is a little thank-you for asking a question that inspired this post.) This post isn’t exactly an answer to her question, but rather a reflection […]

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