Office Hours: What is the True North for your book?

What’s New

• Cookie Madness

• Gardening adventures

• Bit by the sourdough bug

• Recipes

  • Steamed buns

  • Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin

  • Easy pickled vegetables - I did this with julienne d onions, carrots and cucumber

Productivity

• Theme - What is the true north or your novel

  • What is a theme and why should you have one

  • How to pick it Outlining Your Novel - K. M. Weiland

  • How it CAN drive productivity

  • Ute Hagen’s Object Exercise from Respect for Acting

What I’m Writing

• Book 4 - Going well after pausing to re-plot

• Revision Notes

What I’m Reading

• Non-Fiction - Creative Writer’s Notebook 20 Great Authors & 70 Writing Exercises

• Fiction - Beauty: Everland Ever After - Caroline Lee

What I’m Watching

• Outlander - Roger Mac galvanized, maybe so

• Belgravia - epix

• The Masked Singer

What I’m Crafting

• Sanquhar knit shawl