When the dryer stops tumbling, I’ll be able to finish packing for the trip and click that item off the to do list. I hope to be on the road before noon. Until I get a few hundred miles away, anything could interfere with the trip. Indeed, since the moment I decided to take this… Continue reading The Last of the Laundry
Author: hmelton
Upcoming Events: SCBWI LA
I had been delaying my registration for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators summer conference in Los Angelos because I wasn’t sure whether I would attend or not. It isn’t cheap. But today, Mary Ann pushed again, and brought up the idea that I could make it a Jeep trip. That was the… Continue reading Upcoming Events: SCBWI LA
Traveling even when I’m not
Writing a novel, for me, isn’t a process of starting at the beginning and continuing until the end. I start out with an idea, like a few words scribbled on a sheet of paper. This takes weeks. I think about it while, and the words become something like a drawing, with stick-figures in pencil. Somewhile… Continue reading Traveling even when I’m not