I’m pushing… pushing… pushing through weak writing to create new scenes before revising/perfecting the old. First drafts are always full…
During one of JRW’s twitter-chats (#jrwc12) with upcoming conference speakers, we were posing questions for Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints…
My agent nixed the novel I finished drafting earlier this year, and it’s taken me a couple of months to…
A few weeks ago I finished the first draft of a novel for 4th-5th grade readers, and set it aside…
In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…
A while back, fellow VCFA alum Lindsey Lane asked if I had a favorite quote about writing—and I did—and in…
The blank page glares at me. Stark. Judging. Waiting for brilliance, not blather. The pressure is almost unbearable. First there…
A little love came my way recently. Richmonder Marci Rich, who writes The Midlife Second Wife, nominated my blog for…
The smoky odor from a too-hot furnace…a hint of honeysuckle…the racket of bullfrogs—these were the details that brought last week’s…
While I was drafting this post, my son peered over my shoulder, and said, “Mom, TL:DR: too long; didn’t read.”…