Arlene Hittle

Category: Musings

  • Readin’ & Thinkin’

    It’s better than wishin’ and hopin’, I guess. I did spend more than an hour writing today, so “Operation Treat Writing Like a Day Job” is still going strong on Day 3. The bad news is, it took me more than an hour to write about 550 words. I’m definitely not on a roll at […]

  • Inspired

    Again, I went to my NARWA meeting … and again I was inspired by a great speaker. Jennifer Ashley talked about how to finish that manuscript and get it published. And as usual, I had to come back to Flagstaff and head straight to work when I wanted to go home and write. Agents and […]

  • Writing ‘guy’?

    How is it that something I never thought much about before last week is now popping up everywhere? I just checked out The Seekers blog, and their latest post is about “writing ‘guy.’” Last week, after checking out another post, I found myself asking if guys really speak in shorter sentences. (It was something I’d […]

  • More than I knew

    I thought I was making good progress in getting my manuscript ready for the Golden Heart competition. I’ve edited 80 pages, trying to dig deeper into the minds of my characters and getting rid of a lot of “he said, she said” tags, replacing them with action tags instead. I’ve even succeeded in making good, […]