The road trip is coming together. The mission: Explore England’s landscapes and culture guided by literature and the hunt for local fare. This quick jaunt will include the Cotswolds, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and more. Maybe pop into Manchester or South Cumbria….
Tasting England – A Road Trip
Alright folks! It’s official: My next food focused trip will be a road trip through the English countryside. I will be visiting a variety of destinations – like the beautiful, quaint villages that inspired Jane Austen novels or Downton Abbey –…
Getting there. New elements
Awesome progress in my writing today. Although I should have been polishing the completed book, I was hit with inspiration to add more elements. Very exciting elements. So happy I held on to my book this long. In the meantime,…
While you’re waiting…
It has been quite some since I last posted any updates on the novel. I foolishly did it – I let life get in the way. But I’m not too concerned. I am finally back on schedule and plan to…
Snow Day Writing
There’s nothing like a snow day to get me back on this project. Only ~250 more pages to go. I’m secretly pleading to myself that this will be a final* version. *By final, I mean the draft I will be…
Show, don’t tell
“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway “Show” is one of the most important tips I received thus far in editing my book. More than one of my beta-readers offered me this word of advice and I…