By Michelle Shocklee Interruptions in life happen to all of us at some point. Sometimes they’re dark and scary, perhaps due to a storm raging that has nothing to do with the weather. (Although as many of our friends and family on the Texas and Florida coasts know, weather storms wreak havoc and disrupt life in ways they’d never imagined!) …
Writing and Staying Healthy—Was Your Mother Right?
By Roxanne Rustand Yes—she was right, about getting enough sleep, exercise and eating properly. But how easy it is, to ignore that wisdom when there aren’t enough hours in the day to work on your writing career! Whether you are an aspiring writer longing for a first sale, a busy author working on deadlines, or someone with responsibilities in a …
Writing and Staying Healthy—Was Your Mother Right?
By Roxanne Rustand Yes—she was right, about getting enough sleep, exercise and eating properly. But how easy it is, to ignore that wisdom when there aren’t enough hours in the day to work on your writing career! Whether you are an aspiring writer longing for a first sale, a busy author working on deadlines, or someone with responsibilities in a …
The Miracle of Music
By Christine Sunderland Music, an ordering and art of sound, is a profoundly intriguing phenomenon. What is, after all, music? Why is it deeply personal and grandly universal at the same time? What is the “music of the spheres?” I wish to explore some of these ideas in my next novel (working title, The Music Librarian). Writing novels (or writing …
The Miracle of Music
By Christine Sunderland Music, an ordering and art of sound, is a profoundly intriguing phenomenon. What is, after all, music? Why is it deeply personal and grandly universal at the same time? What is the “music of the spheres?” I wish to explore some of these ideas in my next novel (working title, The Music Librarian). Writing novels (or writing …
Three Tips for Writing a Novella that Feels Like a Full Book
by Melissa Tagg I wrote my first novella in 2014…and, true story, I had noooo clue what I was doing! I’d published three novels at the time. I’d written short stories in college. But nothing in-between. Since then, though, I’ve written four more novellas and they’ve become some of my very favorite writing projects. I’ve also been intentional about reading …
Three Tips for Writing a Novella that Feels Like a Full Book
by Melissa Tagg I wrote my first novella in 2014…and, true story, I had noooo clue what I was doing! I’d published three novels at the time. I’d written short stories in college. But nothing in-between. Since then, though, I’ve written four more novellas and they’ve become some of my very favorite writing projects. I’ve also been intentional about reading …
When a Writer Hits a Wall
By Joanna Davidson Politano “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemmingway Writers often find we cannot escape the lure of creating stories, yet it’s both freeing and frustrating, isn’t it? It’s a voluntary invasion of privacy, a big emotional investment, and it’s never as easy as it seemed before …
When a Writer Hits a Wall
By Joanna Davidson Politano “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~Ernest Hemmingway Writers often find we cannot escape the lure of creating stories, yet it’s both freeing and frustrating, isn’t it? It’s a voluntary invasion of privacy, a big emotional investment, and it’s never as easy as it seemed before …
Nurturing Creativity
by Jan Drexler When I was a mother of young children, I ran into a problem. I call it deficit spending. I was spending my creativity as I cared for the needs of these helpless children. There is a ten-year age span between my oldest and youngest sons, so I was dealing with pre-adolescent angst at the same time I …