A friend brought to my attention a book called "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. In reality, it was more like: a friend rem...

Last year, I sent out query letters with the chance that an agent would request a manuscript -- and I'm glad none of them did because...

eople! This whole Blogpostathon is haaaard.  Posting new content 40 days in a row is not for the faint of heart, and I should know......

Spooky things have always had a place in my life. So have mystical things, magical things, unrealistic things. Those fantastical beas...

The joke among some of my close friends is: "Get that book published so you can buy that lake house." The lake house isn...

There's a month of writing insanity. It happens in November when the doldrums of winter begin to rear its ugly head. It happens right...

When I sit down to write an essay, I think about E.B. White's "Once More to the Lake," and feel inadequate. It ruined me b...

his summer, my goal was to Blogpost the Summer Fantastic . Luckily, summer is far from over, but I am not posting it fantastic. It...

On the warmed porch Saturday afternoon, while Steph slept, I was at the table in the sunlight with my manuscript. A few weekends ago I fi...

I enjoyed a hectic round of NaNoWriMo this past November. Now, it's time to face the manuscript. A book written in the blinding speed...

I started writing to get away from my peers. Just like any student in a minefield of adolescent decay, a notebook was my saving grace. Wi...

or the past few years, I've been working on random bits of writing and submitting them to various online literary magazines. I am a...

I have always been a fan of the theater. So much that when I was little, I would devise my own plays with the help of my cousins. Those pla...

I write for a random website called Ficly. It allows people to post short fiction and then you can read and comment on other people's fi...

When I found out A&E was making a mini-series from Stephen King's "Bag of Bones," I was like, what? I haven't read tha...

50,381 words. I missed only two days. The second book in the series I'm writing isn't finished yet, but I think I learned a much g...

Myself! Squee! The month of November has been dubbed NaNoWriMo. This means National Novel Writing Month. It was started by a guy named C...

My students hear all the time that I used to write for the campus newspaper when I was in college. They hear me say it, and I'm sure the...