The FROG Blog

QUOTA Much calculation from the FROG blog. For someone who defaults to words over numbers, today I projected figures with the vigor of an accountant. My current book is at the publisher’s house and I’m in the Martha and Mary Studio writing another book. I had residual inertia after meeting recent deadlines, which I prefer…

In Plumb’s song, I Need You Now, she sings about everybody’s got a story to tell. Everybody’s got a wound that needs to be healed. We live her words because on varying levels, we crave to be heard. We need to be valuably acknowledged. I see an increase in You Tube videos ranging from motivational…

LESS IS MORE Less if more, even less is even more. This is a guideline an English professor taught about writing and editing. He talked about cutting excessive words (i.e that, just, then, definitely) to tighten story lines. A journalism teacher taught to write like an inverted pyramid in order of most-to-least important points. Tig,…

Tomorrow I begin a new career assignment! I am honored, excited, filled (more like overflowing) with joy. As part of this gratefulness, I’m issuing my own career pink slip. This isn’t a cynical foreshadowing that I’m going to be written up or reprimanded. This pink slip is written with a list of all the reasons…

Jumping from the lily pad into an ocean I am energized from the craft of writing. It’s a spiritual boost of caffeine and lately I haven’t regularly steeped in that literary jolt. As a result, some of my joy has been depleted. As I was tracing the source of this dark funk, I discovered a…