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Laura L. Zimmerman
Apr 5, 20162 min read
They’re coming to take me away…
Well… not anymore, but it sure felt like it a few weeks ago! I’m happy to make a bigger than big announcement that may or may not put a...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Mar 16, 20162 min read
My poor broken baby…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 28, 20164 min read
5 Courses of the Rough Draft – Are you hungry yet?
Rough Drafts can be a tricky thing. The process that one author takes will look completely opposite from that of another. Each of us have...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 19, 20164 min read
What is your writing routine?
I’m often asked how I get so much writing done when I also homeschool my three daughters. And until about a year ago, I would’ve said it...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Feb 15, 20162 min read
When you’ve got a few words to cut…
My current manuscript in revision happens to be a middle-grade fantasy set in a fictional medieval world with fun things like unicorns...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Jan 26, 20151 min read
Parties and snowflakes and books that are finished! These are a few of my favorite things!
So, I just looked and saw the date of my last post on my blog. *blush, blush* Has it really been that long? Is it any consolation that...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Jan 5, 20151 min read
The benefits of stepping back…
So, it never ceases to amaze me how a little time away from my writing, can make a world of difference. Each time I step away from a...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Dec 9, 20144 min read
Story Rx: It’s all in the details…
So, I recently glanced through one of my manuscripts that I hadn’t seen in a while. Partway through, I noticed that I had a child...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Dec 6, 20142 min read
Less is More
So, I’m about to lend out ‘Fallen Ashes’ to some beta readers, to (hopefully) enter the final steps of revision. As I went back through...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Dec 3, 20142 min read
Why I have a love/hate relationship with my writing.
So, NaNoWriMo is officially over and I’m happy to say that it was a great encouragement to get me moving on editing my upcoming novel....
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Nov 6, 20141 min read
NaNoWriMo – Day 6
Almost there! Tomorrow will be one full week into 2014 NaNoWriMo. How is it going? Have you begun writing yet? What are you writing...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Oct 3, 20144 min read
How Bethany Beach made me a better writer
A month ago, we had our end of the summer hurrah by visiting a beach we’d never been to before – Bethany Beach, DE. We’d heard nothing...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Sep 22, 20142 min read
Why I am going to miss my deadline; and this is a good thing.
Dear friends, The next and final installment of my novella series, “Now I Sleep” is slated to be published by the end of this month. I’m...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Sep 11, 20143 min read
My Beta is my Alpha and why I feel stuck
So, I’ve been doing this writing thing for a while now. (Technically ever since I can remember.) Even before I published my first novella...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Aug 23, 20143 min read
The Inspired Writer
Recently I read a post by another blogger who posed the question to other writers, Are you currently in a writing mode? It was an...
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Laura L. Zimmerman
Jul 20, 20142 min read
On writing…
I am writing. Yay. (This is me writing. Happy, happy, happy.) I can’t tell you how much I love when I get to write. It’s been a while,...
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