Category: Marsha L Floyd

  • DAY 10 National Novel Writing Month

    Christian writers write too! I am discovering many faith based writers who self publish, many of them give their booklets away. My Son, Carl William Morris III (1980-2008) was an untitled evangelist he wrote and sold a booklet:JUST LOOKING FOR THE WAY by Carl (CHAMP) Morris. The booklet sold for $10 but he gave many away. I am currently reading…

  • DAY 9 NaNoWriMo

    Writing is therapy that is why we see so much personal information on social media. It, writing, is the release valve for pent up emotions, I have a journal. I think people put their very personal business on Facebook because they are looking for sympathy or agreement. Learning how to take those words and convert them into something less personal…

  • DAY 8 National Novel Writers Month

    Writers write because it’s our job. For many writers our pay is personal satisfaction in completing a blog post validated by someone liking, sharing and or commenting. Truth be told most self published author would be lucky to make $1,000 annually. When I first started writing, around 2010, my research revealed that the average self published writer earned around $5,000…

  • DAY 7: NaNoWriMo

    Obviously I did not write yesterday (Day 6 of my NaNoWriMo challenge), I thought about writing but it was Sunday and I do have my Sunday activities. The reality is writers may not write every day but they still write.Waking up I know it was good that I did not write because my head is busting with ideas, some of…

  • DAY 5: NaNoWriMo

    Absence of passion, we still write. There are those days when you just don’t feel like writing, today is one of those days for me. I did not finish what I was writing yesterday and I want to write about people trusting famous people to tell them how to think. It is Saturday and I have Saturday things to do,…

  • DAY 4: NaNoWriMo

    Even when we are not writing we are writing. I was writing before I ever heard of National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo but I became instantly intrigued with the idea of writing fifty-thousand words in a month knowing that Thanksgiving would occur around crunch time. NaNoWriMo is a writers marathon, having succeed in the writers marathon several times in…