Author Inspiration and Last Week’s Writing Links

Ciao, amici!

1. Weekends are family time for me and I’m having trouble balancing my time with them while keeping up with your comments. I want to give you the time you deserve, so posting during the week makes more sense.
2. Friday posts cost me the ability to add Friday and weekend links. So I decided to give you a week’s worth of links—specifically, the last week’s links—on Mondays.

We’ll try it this way for a while and see how it goes. Who knows? I may end up moving the post again. But I think I finally have the right day. It’s all a learning process.

Which brings me to this week’s quote by the talented and prolific James Scott Bell:

Finish your novel.
Because you learn more that way than any other.

Writing—good writing—doesn’t just happen. It’s a learning process. I have a master’s degree in writing and decades of…