Especially during National Novel Writing Month, writers can get a tad preoccupied with word count. In fact, I’ve read posts by more than a handful of authors who refuse to […]

Before I start: a confession. I am on a plane right now headed out of the country on a business trip. I will not be back until Friday afternoon and […]

Full credit on this one goes to K. Marie Criddle’s blog C’MERE and you can find the original post here.

While fumbling through the internet, I found a post by Brian Klems who is the online editor for Writer’s Digest. I receive the WD emails, so I read through a […]

A lot of writers I’ve met have said that one of the questions they’re asked most is where do you find inspiration. It’s hard to give a real answer to […]

This is Janice. And I want to steal her sweater. 🙂 Recently, I discovered Janice Hardy’s blog. Janice is the author of the middle grade Healing Wars Trilogy, but her […]

It’s one of those rules I feel like I’ve always known: Don’t use exclamation points in writing. I’ve always heard this… and I’ve pretty much always ignored it. With the […]

I have, in essence, run a creative marathon in the past few weeks and now I feel exhausted.  As soon as I finished the draft, I started setting up for […]

This past weekend was phenomenal both for the family time I enjoyed and the writing milestones I hit. First, on Saturday I broke 100,000 words! Yaaaaay! This meant that, no […]