Microsoft OneNote organizes my writing, recipes, and personal information in virtual notebooks. With tabbed sections along the top, a good search function, and a page index to help me find things I’ve forgotten, it’s my favorite tool for assembling notes, developing ideas, and composing. My writing progress is never steadily forward; I’m always jumping around to expand …
Wide Awake by Charles Trowbridge Pratt Because my new novel-in-progress is set in 1900, I’ve been researching details of daily life in the late 19th century. I bought two books and read another via Inter-library loan, but the greatest help has been the storage of memories, documents, and special interests on Internet sites. One day, …
I hung a heavy name on my main character in Wacky Road– Sara-Lapis Hughes. Early readers of the story, which was submitted a chapter a week on Critiquecircle.com, forgot her last name (Hughes) and thought it was “Lapis.” Later, one critiquer suggested I hyphenate her name, which I did. Then somebody else thought it was a …