A friend of mine said recently she was going to finish her book if it killed her, even if it meant doing it one page at a time. To which another friend replied, “isn’t that the only way to do it?” And of course she was right!
Some people can write twenty pages one day [...]

I love Halloween. It’s hard not to love a holiday that involves obscene amounts of chocolate. But Halloween is about much more than trick-or-treating. It’s about wearing disguises and being scared.
Kind of like writing.

It was a dark and stormy night… Okay, so it wasn’t exactly stormy, just a light gusty breeze, but it was dark and late. Finally, after a thirty minute commute from my local chapter meeting, I pulled into my garage, a little road weary and at the same time overjoyed I actually made it back [...]

A movie scene flashed across the tv screen recently while my husband and I were sitting together in the family room – I have no idea what movie, because he is supreme king of the channel changers.  In any event, the brief exchange I caught between two characters had me instantly gritting my teeth. Â
Male character #1 — “How do you spell (insert [...]