Welcome to week 3 of my little series on writing community. I’m more than a little happy today because I get to share with you my writing community!! They’re a lovely group, and I’m rather fond of them all—including YOU! A quick recap: Week 1:...
Last week I shared with you guys how writers need both the support of a writing community and solitude in which to create. These are two sides of a coin, inseparable. Writing is a solitary profession when it comes to the molding and shaping of Story; however, a...
If you spend more than a click or two in writer circles, you will read…and re-read…and re-read…variations of “writing is a solitary profession.” So, to be a “real writer;” must one become a hermit and come blinking out into...
Have you ever found inspiration in a book? Have you ever picked up a book and been changed? Not just wowed or inspired or excited—I’ve had that happen many times. Just last November I got a page and a half into Susanna Kearsley’s The Winter Sea and was so...
My wonderful readers, you have been incredibly patient and wonderful and supportive; and I’m so happy to have you on this journey with me! I think it’s about time for me to share with you a little about what I’m writing and about why writing on...
Writing doesn’t always happen. Sometimes life happens instead.That’s not always a bad thing, of course. Take this past week, for example. Since we last chatted, I attended the phenomenal MS Book Festival, rejoiced at the baptisms of both of my children,...
