At our last virtual get-together, one of my writer friends announced she was getting back the rights for a book she’d recently sold to a small press. The company had published several books for her already, and she’d been happy with those books and the publisher’s support. But the publisher wanted her to take this…
Is Twitter: A flippant smarmy cesspool? Source of endless inspiration? Giant time suck? All of the above? I would never recommend doing anything that doesn’t suit your style or float your boat, but I need my daily (um, er, hourly) Twitter fix. There are 1.5 zillion writing and writing-related accounts on Twitter, but I’m here…
A friend sent me this photo, and I laughed out loud. Then a sensation overcame me. You know the feeling, a little tingling in your psyche as the miracle of creativity takes hold, transporting you to a place of bliss and visions and words. A backstory of Santa’s predicament came to mind in gentle bursts…
I know a lot of people are having a hard time finding their “happy” these days. This has been a year of anger and sadness and fear, and it’s worn us all down. Now that the elections are over (probably) and there is the light of a vaccine at the end of the tunnel, I…
I asked myself this question a few weeks ago. I was dealing with a complete writer’s block, compounded by the mental fog that my bout with coronavirus left me with. I found a number of answers, but it took a while to decide which one mattered the most. I started writing in 2016. How that…