My first entry

I'm starting this blog at an exciting time in my professional life. My writing is taking off, I've developed a new website for my copyediting business, and I'm off to a Highlights Foundation workshop for children's magazine writers next week in Pennsylvania.
Last week I was at a one-day conference of the Orange County chapter of SCBWI. The most inspirational speaker was a woman who had been writing for years, and at age 73, had just had her first children's book published, a middle-grade historical. Sometimes I'm in a hurry for everything to happen at once, and her comments were excellent motivation for me.