“Our next available operator will be with you shortly. Your wait time is less than four minutes.”

I love the automated messages that tell me how long I have to wait. I don’t even mind if they say I have to wait ten minutes. At least I know.
No one likes to wait without a prescribed time limit.…

I write almost every day of the year–either for clients or on my fiction projects. But I have been a miserable blogger. Since NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is so effective for me to complete my first drafts, I decided to give the A to Z Blogging Challenge a try.

As an aspiring fiction writer, I often write about…