Category Archive: Writing Life

Why YOU should consider doing the #atozchallenge, but why I’m not . . .

Last year, I participated in perhaps one of the most insane and LARGEST blog hops/fest in the blog-o-sphere – the A to Z Challenge. (You can read all of my posts from 2012… Continue reading

Book Review: A Writer’s Bucket List by Dana Sitar

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for a review. Please click the graphic to the left to visit the Goodreads page for A Writer’s Bucket List.… Continue reading

Bucket List Challenge Blog Hop – Working Through My List

This blog hop is brought to you by Dana Sitar, celebrating the release of her book A Writer’s Bucket List: 99 things to do for inspiration, education, and experience before your writing hits the… Continue reading

My 2013 Goals & Aspirations – Some Revisions

Well, somehow, the first month of 2013 has come to a close. And I’ve decided that every year, one month in, I’m going to go over my goals again, because it seems that… Continue reading

What’s coming up in February!

First off, if you haven’t voted for my novel, Catalyst, in the 2013 NaNo Virtuosos contest, go do it! For more info, please visit this post. Secondly, there’s a few things that I’m… Continue reading

NaNo Virtuosos Round 3 – That’s right, I’m IN! Now I need YOUR help!

Hi Everyone! I’m still alive! My shoulders aren’t, but that’s another matter. Hopefully a visit with a massage therapist will solve that problem here in the next couple of weeks. BUT – just… Continue reading

The Joys of Receiving Feedback

All of us writers have heard how crucial it is to have critiquers (I know it’s technically not a word, but it should be!) and beta-readers to help us polish our writing. What… Continue reading

The Joys of *insert any activity here* (Writing/Editing, Urban Farming, Blogging . . . )

Hi everyone! I thought I would pop by and let you all know that I am still alive! First up, I have been editing almost NON-STOP on Catalyst. (OMG I almost despise my… Continue reading

And So Begins Round 2 . . .

That’s right – Round Two of NaNo Virtuosos is now running! Things are a little different for this round: The manuscripts are NOT what is being voted on, but rather the cover concepts… Continue reading

Of Editing & Anniversaries

Christmas was absolutely crazy this year. Not because of Christmas, but because of people doing stupid things, and so instead of editing as much as possible in the time between the end of… Continue reading

I MADE IT!

I made it to Round 2 of NaNo Virtuosos! *cries* I need some ice cream to celebrate!

Exciting End of Year Stats, the giveaway winners, and my 2013 Goals & Aspirations

First, yay for year-end-stats! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had… Continue reading

300 posts, you say? Let’s celebrate! Who likes cookies and scones?

300 posts. I certainly hoped that I would get here one day, but it’s one of those goals that’s surreal until you actually reach it, and then it’s even MORE surreal. And it’s… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo 2012 & #WriteMotivation Wrap-Up

NaNoWriMo Days 27-30 & Total Month Recap Word Goal:  50,000 Ending Word Count (on Nov 30): 54,000 What Happened: The last few days of NaNo, my mind just got overwhelmed. Since I was… Continue reading

It’s Almost Time for NaNo!

. . . and even though it’s less than an hour away, I am not staying up to start writing at midnight. I’ve been up since 6 am this morning.  I was awake… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo & #WriteMotivation

If you’ve followed my blog regularly this year, you’ve heard me talk about #writemotivation before.  #Writemotivation is the creation of the beautiful and brilliant KT Hanna, and the writing world owes much to… Continue reading

NaNoWriMo Tools – The 2012 Edition

Author Note 6/19/2013 – Due to an inordinate amount of spam that is just good enough to not be picked up by the Akismet filter, comments on this blog post have been permanently… Continue reading

The Versatility of Index Card Outlining

This post now available here: http://rebekahloper.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/the-versatility-of-index-card-outlining/

Life, Urban Farming, and Writing . . .

Well, this is my first Sunday post in . . . a while.  What’s been going on in my life? A little bit of everything. Mark Lowry, a Christian comedian, has a wonderful… Continue reading

Mixing Up Routines . . .

It’s going to be strange this month – I’m not doing #writemotivation for the first time since I found out about it. But sometimes life just throws you a curve – or fifty.… Continue reading

Where did July go? #writemotivation and #writemehealthy updates.

  Like I said in the title . . . where did July go?  I can’t believe that it’s already passed, and that we’ve been in our new house for a month now!… Continue reading