This isn’t my best foray into Canva quote designs but I love the sentiment and I hope you do, too. You made it to Friday. Maybe it wasn’t pretty. Maybe you didn’t log 1,000 words a
Category: Creativity
Creativity is at the core of all art, from writing books to playing music to dancing ballet. Find inspiration for your creative self, especially ideas to get the most from your writing practice.
The great, compelling and prolific speculative fiction writer Lois McMaster Bujold penned these choice words. And, as we go back to work, school or whatever reality awaits us today, let’s hold on to this truth and
We’vearrived. Yes, it’s 2020, where everything should be perfectly clear. Our newdecade looks likely to begin with a year of bad 20/20 vision puns. We’re “outwith the old” which, in 2020, means post-holiday clearance sales
Here’s to a year without excuses. Yes, let’s begin 2019 without resolutions — or reservations! Write the words, hit the gym, take the class, say YES to your dreams. When you feel weary, walk. When you
April is so many things. National Poetry Month, middle spring, tax time… Somehow the confluence of rhythmic prose, daffodils, and mathematical percentages always leads me to reconsider the path of the fiction writer. Do you have
It’s 3:58 pm on January 1, 2018. I’ve done the grocery shopping, gone to the gym, and thought (a lot) about writing. I’m intimidated already. My unspoken New Year’s writing resolutions feel unreachable before I even
Gift yourself with this quick writing exercise. On a rumpled scrap of wrapping paper, jot down… Three things that sparkle Three things that bring joy Three things that inspire you Three favorite toys Three incredible authors
I can hardly believe everyone is back at school and work and, through the horrible haze of the wildfire smoke-clouded air, I can see the faintest glimmer of that beloved dream: A Fall Routine. I have
I am writing to thank you. Not just broadly for Snap Judgement and The Moth and the late, great Vinyl Cafe. No, I want to thank you specifically for your contribution to my work as a
Six years into my journey as a “published YA author,” I have accomplished the following: BOOK-WISE Published a “quiet” debut novel, AUDITION, 2011. Worked myself to the bone blog-touring, live-touring and otherwise promoting AUDITION. Paid my