In writing for publication, the reader has to be taken into account-- whether it's a blog, story, or book. The author desires to wri...

  For more than four months, I've been working on re-editing my Arizona historical romances. Because we needed to pull some, in order to...

by Rain Trueax central Arizona photo Astrologers say the planet Uranus went retrograde (whatever that means), and from between...

It's late summer, and of course, the irrigation pump had to break down. That took a lot of work, getting a new motor, having that r...

by Rain Trueax  You have written all morning putting together a blog. It's gone along well. The words flowed from the original idea...

Resolution of  "Ritner Creek with Larkspur" oil on canvas, 25" square.  an early version Too many subjects all fig...

Four times I made changes.  After each I was elated; I thought the painting resolved, but that didn't last. This morning I did the mos...

A painting is never complete. I never set aside a painting  until I can look at it for a long time without it telling me it needs changes. ...

It might seem after the misery of June in editing the paranormals with the mistakes that were so upsetting that I'd let editing go for a...

by Rain Trueax When I put out a book, I am convinced it is without errors and written to the best of my capabilities (at that time). I b...

Be a writer b ecause it takes you from the current outside world into an internal one. If you write nonfiction, you do research and that...

For the last week, we've had our 15, 12, and 8 year old grandsons (off and on) at the farm. They've been helping build fence, laying...

With my first, word-for-word edit done and the book off to beta readers, I have grandsons visiting but that's mainly for ranch work wi...

 but some things make it even harder! With my seventh Arizona historical romance , Bound for the Hills , I learned a painful lesson reg...