I had something weird happen. No, not the normal craving to build a three story chocolate castle and eat it in one sitting. No, this was when the dark side chose to appear.
Focus Fox: Writing
Writing is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration and 8% alcohol and 20% chocolate.
Top 10 reasons my USB drive went missing
Top 10 reasons my USB drive is missing (with my only copy the first 10K of my new novel)
10. Cerberus ate it.
Solar eclipse at St Joseph, MO
Love her pictures.
Our original plan was to drive to Missouri, visit family, and see the total solar eclipse from Rosecrans Memorial Airport in St. Joseph, MO. When we left home, the weather was predicted to be clear, but that grew worse as we travelled north. By the night before the eclipse, the weather was predicted to be […]
Focus Fox: Life
Life by the yard is very hard, life by the inch is a cinch, life by the pool is very cool.
– paraphrasing Wolfgang Mieder
Demoted
I recently had to demote an author from auto-buy. Auto-buy is a way of saying that I buy an author’s books based on name alone. I will buy their new book quicker than I can eat a 3 lb bag of chocolate. (yes, that fast) All writers want on this list for as many people as they can. Auto-buy is a close-cousin to impulse buy. As a writer myself, I wanted to figure out why they were demoted.
Focus Fox: Meditation
Focus Fox Says: The Best Meditation Style for my personality type? A straight jacket.
Top 9 things not to pet on a first date
9. Tigers
8. Her chia pet
7. Her mother
6. Her mother’s chia pet
5. Her father
4. Her father’s garden hose
3. Waitstaff
2. Random Rocks
The Secret to Successful Blogging
A year ago I gave myself a challenge to blog at least once a week. I did it. Woot! Sometimes it’s hard to come up with blog posts. What should I talk about? How long should the post be? How do I still get any writing done?
That’s the topic of my guess blog post on Zara West’s site. She was gracious enough to invite me over to post.
Check it out at: http://www.zarawestsuspense.com/claudia-blood-2/
Happy Reading!
Focus Fox: Right/Write
Focus Fox says: “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. An author is the thing doing the writing.”
paraphrasing Peter Drucker
