Spring is always a busy time around our household. My husband and I own a two-acre lot and like to garden, so the last few weeks have been dedicated to clearing out last year’s foliage from the flower beds and turning over the soil in the vegetable patch. All this in anticipation for that … Continue reading How to Nurture the Writer Within
Finding Time to Write When Life Has Other Plans
A couple years ago my husband and I joined our local gym. We’d hit our mid-forties and decided the time had come to trim our waistlines before someone else told us we had to do so. We started gung-ho, totally committed. An hour, three to four nights a week, both of us running on treadmills … Continue reading Finding Time to Write When Life Has Other Plans
Only A Writer Knows: Why Stories Get Rejected
This past week one of the members in my writing group expressed her frustration about having one of her pieces sent back to her ONCE AGAIN. The story is close to her heart and she has sent it to several literary journals, but for some reason it hasn’t quite found the perfect fit—yet. Maybe you’ve … Continue reading Only A Writer Knows: Why Stories Get Rejected
Only a Writer Knows: A Forum
Not sure how many of you have had the chance to catch the first season of David Letterman's Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, but Letterman's return to television has made me realize how much I miss those "Top Ten" lists he used to rattle off on the Late Show. If Letterman had done a … Continue reading Only a Writer Knows: A Forum
Looking Ahead: Summer Writers’ Retreats & Conferences
I don't know about you, but cabin fever has dug in pretty deep over here in Wisconsin. A friend of mine posted this meme on Facebook the other day: At least some of us still have our humor intact. The rest? Well, let's just say it's been a very, very long winter. One ray of … Continue reading Looking Ahead: Summer Writers’ Retreats & Conferences
