A book gets written one word at a time. The trick is to string enough of them together on a regular basis, day in and day out.

I made my word goal for the day before 2:00 and then got in a 40 minute walk on the treadmill. My goodness, I’m feeling ridiculously proud of myself. Perhaps because too often lately I’ve fallen short of my word goal and doing that just leads to stress. Ugh!

There’s been lots of discussion on one of my writers’ lists about the Downton Abbey finale. I am a HUGE fan of th...