Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It) is here. Come to the launch party tonight at 7:00 PM at Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI! Stop back here tomorrow to learn how you can win something just by buying the book! Why Write-A-Thon? For the past week or so,...Read More

The writer’s genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer’s only stuff for sale. —James Gunn Everything that happens to you is material. (Heck, everything that happens to anyone who you remotely know or whose conversation you’ve overheard is material!)...Read More

Is it any wonder I’m not a criminal? … I’ve got too much time on my hands. -Styx Yeah, you know who you are. You’re not bored, exactly. It’s just that with too much time on your hands, you tend to get in trouble. Right? Maybe you cyber stalk your ex, shop too much, or...Read More

Welcome writers! We are counting down to the launch of my new book, Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It). Why write-a-thon? Because: 1. Deadlines work. 2. It’s cheaper than therapy. 3. You have something to say. 4. We need to hear your story. 5. You can do anything for a...Read More

Writing is its own reward. —Henry Miller Have you seen my dining room table? Yeah, neither have I. Sometime after school started, it became buried under school forms, mail, library books, and CDs. At dinner time, we usually push the junk to one side of the table to make room for our plates. But the...Read More

The marathon lifestyle promotes doing rather than watching…by adopting the marathon lifestyle you can confront your own lions, be your own hero, fight your own battles, challenge yourself. —Richard Benyo When I did my first write-a-thon in 2004, I had no idea what I was doing. It was National Novel Writing Month, but I was...Read More

Welcome writers! We are counting down to the launch of my new book, Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It). Why write-a-thon? Because:   1. Deadlines work. 2. It’s cheaper than therapy. 3. You have something to say. 4. We need to hear your story. And today’s reason: 5....Read More

  We are counting down to the launch of my new book, Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It). Why write-a-thon? Because we need to hear your story. A few weeks ago, there was a picture making it’s way around Facebook. In it, a woman was hugging the words on a...Read More

We are counting down to the launch of my new book, Write-A-Thon with a series of blog posts on “Why Write-A-Thon?” Why would anybody do something so insane as attempting to write a book in less than a month? Today’s reason features an excerpt from Write-A-Thon: You have something to say Why Write-A-Thon? You have...Read More

We’re counting down the reasons to participate in a write-a-thon as we count down to the release of my new book, Write-A-Thon: Write Your Book in 26 Days (And Live to Tell About It). Reason #2: Writing is cheaper than therapy! The pen is mightier than the sword. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton You’ve no doubt heard...Read More