Win Day's Blog
July 12, 2022
Rebranding, relaunching
Did you notice the difference?
When I first built this website, I was in a hurry. I had just started writing my first romance novel, and I was about to attend my first writers’ conference. I needed something, fast!
For the first and only time in my web development career, I used a theme straight out of the box, and customized it only enough to build in the display of all the bits and pieces I wanted it to contain.
Over the years, I would look at it periodically and think about rebuilding it. But...
July 11, 2022
Plottr, my latest writing tool
I’ve been writing professionally for a long time. I moved from working in engineering to freelancing as a technical writer in 1992. Over the years I’d developed a pretty strong process for writing non-fiction, and it included creating very detailed outlines.
Along comes 2013, and I decide to try my hand at writing a novel. Imagine my surprise when creating those well-developed outlines, doing that detailed plotting, shut down my ability to finish the book. It’s as if my brain would say, “oh, you...
July 9, 2022
Finally, travel again!
Is this the new normal? Have we made enough progress with vaccines and masks to allow us to be out and about with people again?
My husband and I recently returned from a trip to Italy with some friends. We flew from Calgary to Montreal where we met up with the other couple who had driven across the border from Upstate New York. And then we flew together from Montreal to Rome.
At the time of our departure, Canadian airlines still required passengers to wear masks on board the plane except when ac...
February 19, 2020
Goodbye, CaRWA.
September 3, 2018
Doorways into reading — and writing
July 20, 2018
Websites for writers (and other folk)
I’ve been asked a couple of times lately what I do for clients. This post gets a little detailed, so bear with me!
