Have you written 50,000 words in NaNoWriMo??? Congratulations!! 402,000 people participated this year, and only 11% finished. So give yourself an enormous pat o... Read More...
What does every writer need? An audience and a deadline. There's nothing like true awareness of your reader to bring out your best writing. When you're writing ... Read More...
In college, were you the kind of person who studied in your dorm room, headed to the lounge for the bustle and the noise, or staked out a carrell in the library... Read More...
If you were the troll under a bridge in a story you're writing - what three questions would you ask? What are you dying to know the answer to?
A lot of my clie... Read More...
Am I right?
We are not joiners, belongers. We don't see ourselves as blending in. Writers perch, observe, and sometimes hide their ideas, bec they might seem t... Read More...
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”
Ernest Hemingway
Writing is a solitary sport. But, many of the people I talk with lately cannot get any alon... Read More...
Yep, we're the best kind of weirdos. Think about it, if we weren't weird, why would we want to write? There is a weird or unique point of view we feel compelled... Read More...
The pandemic was, at one point, a nationally unifying experience. We were all at home, stunned, baking banana bread. A little giddy. A little scared. Keeping ou... Read More...
Someone in my FB group said she was on the fence about whether to join the 5-Day Challenge to Write Without the Fight that starts tomorrow, March 16th at noon P... Read More...
Facing a challenge can define us - show us our strengths, help us face our limitations. If we weren't up for challenges, none of us would be writers. Now let's ... Read More...