About a week ago, I finished my third Mabel Hartley story, and I have to say that the exhilaration of finishing the story put my little brain on overdrive for a while. I sat down tonight and tried to figure out why I’ve been so tired this week. I celebrated my 42nd birthday yesterday, my […]
There might as well be a parade on my street today! I finished my first draft of my third Mabel Hartley novel today and it feels so good. This story has been in the works for two years now, and to get to the end and to know all that happens and how it happens, […]
Life has been crazy this week and I hope to wrap up a two year process with finishing the first draft of my new book. Then it will be on to revisions and covers and formatting for digital publishing. But I will savor the last sentence and the last word written because that will be […]
I always assume that writer’s have every dash and comma in place long before it appears on the page – and so with endings, I never tire in my respect for author’s who have surprised me or made me sit back and go “wow” what a story. So the way I write is a little […]
This Monday is: tidying up after a tsunami swept through our house yesterday. Four hours later, I emerge victorious. My house is returned to better than normal. I have been taking things out of all the kitchen drawers and washing surfaces. Clean looks good. Am I procrastinating? No, I think I’m just readying myself to […]
“We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.” Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Medical Physicist. The second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine And that is just what I needed to hear today. With thanks to one of […]
Three chapters until the first draft of my third Mabel Hartley story is done…closing in on the finish line. Will I make it before the kids finish school and all hell breaks loose? Stay tuned!
This week was a bit of a battle. I spent the last few days plagued with doubts about my work as a writer and really feeling like giving up. The ebbs and flows of just living in my brain, and perhaps the pressure to raise two kids and have worked on a YA fiction series […]
J.E. Reddington 