10 Minute Writer

Confessions of A Busy Mom Who is Attempting To Become A Novelist, Ten Minutes At A Time

Sliding on Your Face Through The Ice (And Other Painful Events)

My kid went down the icy hill on his face. I didn’t see it. I was a few yards away pushing his little sister in the swing. I just heard him crying. He cries when his peas touch his carrots, so I wasn’t overly concerned. Until he came up the hill and I saw him. [...]

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Who Wants To Be A 10 Minute Reader? (Announcing My Facebook Fan Page!)

I didn’t think I was ready for this. But, maybe it’s better than I just jumped in without thinking too hard about it. Here it is . . . . My Facebook Fan Page They say it’s never to early to start marketing. They also say not to stick your tongue on a metal pole [...]

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Hiccups Saved The Day! But What About Tomorrow?

Someday, I hope, I’ll be a famous novelist. I’ll see my name in print. I’ll have links on Amazon.com. I’ll have a fan page on Facebook. I’ll be cleverly reclusive, leaving my readers wanting a little bit more. I might grace them with a personal appearance at a bookstore, signing autographs in copies of my [...]

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My Hiatus — Or How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

My last entry was about waiting on God’s Big Plan for my family — a plan which we truly thought was going in one specific direction. It did not. It still might. But at this writing, there is no definite plan to do anything but to wait and maintain what we have. Since my last [...]

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