2022 – Melinda R. Cordell

How To Create the Best Space To Grow Veggies INDOORS

So take a look at the space you’ve decided to give to your plants. If it’s near a window, how much light will the window provide? Do you need to supplement that light with an artificial light source? And, if so, is there a plug-in nearby? If not, do you have an extension cord long enough to reach it? And can you place that cord where nobody is going to trip over it?

I really didn’t expect to have to do THAT much thinking over where to put a pot of herbs, but here we are.

A few ways to get a mini-MFA in writing.

rosefiend June 22, 2022 July 25, 2022 about me / How To / Indie Publishing / writing how-to / writing tips / YA

Here’s a helpful rule of thumb for novelists: Read 100 novels in the genre that you want to write in. You can choose any novels you like, but include recent novels, good books written within the last 10 years. Read the classic novels from this genre, too — just so you get a bird’s eye view of how the genre has changed over time

Searching for Treasure — or Something Sinister

rosefiend May 3, 2022 May 3, 2022 Melinda has a gripe

An excerpt from A BLAZE OF VALKYRIES!! Guys, this book is going to be out on 30 May, and I’m getting all the final fixes fixed on this puppy. I haven’t been advertising it much because I was worried that it wasn’t going to be good enough lol. Well now …

Biomechanics for Winter Athletes

rosefiend January 12, 2022 January 12, 2022 Melinda has a gripe

Originally published in Front Vision magazine Anyone who has watched cross-country skiers lurching uphill during a race, like zombies flailing with ski poles, might be amazed by their strange movements. But when their movements are analyzed on video – their “skating” on the snow, the slight flop of the skier’s …