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  • Coffee Dates: Characters

    Good Morning, Creatives! You made it through the week! Congratulations, you’ve done amazingly well! *Throws glitter and confetti in celebration.* Seriously though, congratulations for making it through another week and holding onto your commitments as a writer. The world needs writers, and it especially needs writers who are passionate about their stories and about characters.…

  • A Writer’s Life: Doubt

    Have you ever questioned whether you were a real writer or not? I have. I think every true writer has at one time or another. Poor reviews, harsh critiques, and even harsher rejections take their toll, but beyond these, I think there is an innate whisper is every writer’s mind that suggests—just suggests mind—that we…

  • Checking In With My Bookshelves

    Last night, I dreamed that my house was on fire, and I had to evacuate. It was very stressful. Because I am me and this was a dream, I grabbed my computer first, so that I had all of my books, then headed for my bookshelf and tried to decide which ones I was going…

  • Coffee Dates: Music

    Good Morning, Creatives! Anyone else make it all the way to Friday this week? I feel like I crawled in like a man out of the desert. If you see an oasis anywhere nearby, I’d love directions. I’m kidding. But it does feel like that sometimes, doesn’t it? This week’s question is about music, because…

  • A Writer’s Life: Perfectionism

    Have you ever fixed—and deleted—the same sentence a twenty different times and still felt like you just . . . didn’t get it? Me too. It happens to me all the time. So does staring at one word for so long that it ceases to look like a real word and becomes an abomination against…

  • Bullet Journaling

    This week has been crazy. Between job interviews, work, implementing information and ideas from the conference I went to last weekend, Easter, sending a foster child to his forever family, and writing, I feel like I got a little swamped this week. In a good way. You can get swamped in a good way, right?…