I have hit the tenth anniversary of this blog. My first post was on January 17, 2012, on a WordPress.com blog I called Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time. Five years later, in February 2017, I migrated to this site, TheresaHuppAuthor.com. I now use a WordPress.org […]
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How Did I Do on my 2021 Goals? And What’s Up for 2022?
On December 30, 2020, I posted my primary writing goals for 2021: 1. Edit and publish my seventh novel, my current work-in-progress [which I later titled Safe Thus Far]. I hope to complete this book by Labor Day. 2. Decide on my next novel. (I have three ideas floating around […]
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Evolution of the American Flag
The United States just celebrated its 245th birthday on Sunday, July 4, 2021. In recognition of this event, last week I created a graphic to use in promoting my novel, Lead Me Home. I used an image of the current U.S. flag in the graphic, but that got me thinking […]
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Goals for 2021, Weekly Posts, and Hoping for a Better Year Ahead
Despite the awfulness of 2020, I got a lot accomplished. I wrote most of a novel, edited it, published it, and drafted another novel during NaNoWriMo. As the year ends, I’m about a quarter of the way through my first edit of this new work-in-progress—which will be my seventh novel. […]
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A Point of View on Writing With Multiple Points of View
In my critique group, I’m known as the Point-of-View Nazi. I try to catch when other writers stray from the point of view they established in each scene. I sometimes get caught making this mistake myself, though not very often. I wrote so many affidavits for so many witnesses during my […]
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What Do I Have After Eight Years of Blogging?
I recently discovered that WordPress could show me how many words total I have written on this blog. From January 2012 when I began blogging through 2019, I posted 502,077 words. That’s five good-sized novels. Before I published my first novel, I was told at writing conferences to build an […]
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My Performance Review for 2019 and Writing Goals for 2020
Happy New Year! A year ago, on January 2, 2019, I posted my performance review for 2018 and listed goals for 2019. So how did I do this past year? My 2019 goals were To publish my fourth historical novel. My Hope Secured was published in late October, so I […]
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Twenty Tips from Another Writing Conference
Last Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2018, I attended the Johnson County Library’s writing conference. We in the Kansas City area are very lucky to have excellent library systems in our area, and the Johnson County Library system is one of them. This two-day conference was free to anyone, whether […]
Continue readingI Have Another Guest Post on “A Writer of History”
M.K. Tod offered me another opportunity last week to have a guest post on her blog, A Writer of History. I wrote about the lessons I’ve learned in the last ten years on writing a novel. These were the lessons I presented during my session at the Arrow Rock Writing […]
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Guest Post on Wayne Turmel’s Blog
Last Friday, March 24, I was a guest on Wayne Turmel’s blog. He introduced his interview of me with the following comment: “The opening of the American West is great fodder for writers of historical fiction. Huge vistas, dramatic action, and characters who lived just long enough ago that they […]
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