Do Less Than Your BestMarch 16, 2023If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. We’re inculcated, particularly in American culture, with…
Dear Author…March 9, 2023If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Dear Author, I’m so sorry about this…
Are You “Just”-ifying Your Writing?February 23, 2023If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. “Oh, I’m just starting out with writing.”…
When Will You Be a Success?February 16, 2023If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Recently the hubs and I and some…
What Is Your Wendy?December 8, 2022If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. I’ve been wanting to write about one…
Attack of the Inner Demons!September 22, 2022It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve talked about inner demons—those little buggers who live within many of…
Handling Rejection (and What Rejection Letters Mean—and Don’t Mean)August 25, 2022If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. In parts one and two of this…
Failure IS an OptionJuly 28, 2022This is not the way that phrase is usually deployed, of course—instead we get the über-American, ultra-type-A, seriously pressure-inducing, “Failure…
How Can Writing Matter in the Face of Suffering?May 26, 2022I had another post queued up for today, and then Uvalde happened. It’s hard to write about anything other than…
Who Lives, Who Dies…Who Tells The Stories?March 10, 2022If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. The first time I cried over what’s…
World Building—for Yourself and Your Characters (or, The Reality You Can Choose to Create)November 7, 2024