Decompartmentalizing Your Art
This month I’m coming to the end of my Artist’s Way journey and my prolonged jaunt through Julia Cameron’s creative mind. I have to say,…
The Power of Consistency in Building a Writing Career
There is no shortage of talk about consistency in the writing world. How often do we hear things like, “write every day,” and “don’t wait…
The #1 Thing You Need to Hit All Your 2016 Goals
Happy New Year and welcome to 2016! “New year, new you,” right? Ha! I wish it was that easy. If it was, I could just…
Q: Waiting for Your Publishing Dreams to Come True
Dear Jamie, The querying process can be a long, hard road. After researching the agents, looking at their client list, embedding the required materials (with…
Guest Blog: Why Writers Need Human Connection
I’m over at Writers in the Storm today talking about why writers need to get out of their caves and connect with other people. I…
Guest Blog: 4 Steps to Happy Writing Productivity
I’m over at the Writers in the Storm blog (always one of my favorite places to be!) today! I’m sharing some tips on what I’m…
Growing a Career and Growing Children
This past weekend, we celebrated Mother’s Day. Last month, my youngest turned 2 and next week my oldest turns 4. On top of all that,…
Big Picture Goals for a Long, Unlimited Career
A couple of months ago, when I started querying agents, I had a little…transitional crisis, I guess you could call it. Getting my query prepared,…
A Month of Journaling and Hopefully, a Lifetime More
“Say things to the world that are true.” – Pablo Casals One month (and one day, actually) ago, I was inspired to walk into my…
What Happened to Writing for Fun?
It’s Saturday night as I sit here typing this and things have been pretty crazy here over the past few weeks. Let me break tell…