Author Archives: authorcynthiaracette

I am currently finishing a long short story called Married to the Job, 14,000 words, about an astrophysicist and a particle physicist. I wanted to give the reader a sense of what kind of world people like that live in … Continue reading →

Everyone in your household thinks Christmas just *happens* but you know different. It’s no mean feat orchestrating the biggest holiday of the year. Take the kids’ Christmas lists– please. Henny Youngman is rolling over in his grave. With kids conversant … Continue reading →

Hi. This is Caroline Hartford, from the sloop Windswept and I wanted to tell you about a lovely evening we had on our boat last year. Our church has a summer fete at which they have a silent auction. David … Continue reading →

As writers, we owe it to ourselves to keep improving our craft. Everyone tells us to write, write, write. They– the omniscient and all-knowing they– tell us it takes about 400,000 written words to hone our writing to a real … Continue reading →

I’m currently going through the first revision of my first novel, which I am renaming the Crash and Burn Exercise. You’ve all been through it. It’s humbling, to say the least. It makes you feel like the worst writer on … Continue reading →