Author: Rocky

I Write for a Living

Anyone else out there write for a living? How do you cobble together a paycheck?  Here’s my experience. Although I do not yet have a book published, I do make a modest living as a writer, which is something many writers hope for most of all.  For this, I am grateful. I began as a trade… Continue reading I Write for a Living

What Were you Thinking?

A friend, with 5 children who works full time, recently asked me why I decided to go back to work &  volunteer extensively for school all while still obviously being a Mom. I could have asked her the same thing! But, you know, her decision was made a while back and I bet the answer… Continue reading What Were you Thinking?

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Enjoying the Process

I have been drifting in an ocean of work. It upsets blog communications. But this is a very good thing. This book is nearly complete. I have the last quarter left of draft one and have experienced a very cool phenomenon as an outline writer — basically, what I’ve heard people speak about and hadn’t… Continue reading Enjoying the Process

Thinking Through Forgiveness

We hurt each other a lot, unintentionally, with assumptions mostly or lack of empathy. But I’m not wondering about small injuries. Those are easy. Forgive. In relationships, those little things can layer up, of course, and become habits or large seeming monstrosities. So that eventually one fights about lettuce and bursts into tears screaming, “It’s… Continue reading Thinking Through Forgiveness

Writer Me Update

It’s been all about craft for the last 6 months or so.  Just mad writing of draft one of the new manuscript, my third, maybe my fourth if you count this one awful thing from my 20s. But, yeah, I have something marketable here, I think, and so I’ve been really working it offline.  Problem… Continue reading Writer Me Update