Happy New Year, friends! At the beginning of 2011, I chose a word to represent my intentions for the year. That word was “complete”. My resolution was to finish what I start. And for the most part, I did. My …
SCBWI Summer Conference Recap, Part 2
I’m spending the next week or reviewing my notes from the SCBWI Summer Conference. As I stated in my previous post, I took a notebook’s worth of notes, but out of respect for the SCBWI, I’m only sharing the highlights …
My Fiction Project 2011
A couple of months ago, I participated in Art House Co-op’s Fiction Project 2011. It’s an art/story project where they send you a notebook, you fill it with stories and art, and they send it on tour and house it …
Going Fishing
For the next two weeks, I’m hunkering down and getting some projects finished. Instead of leaving the blog all quiet and empty and alone, I’m reposting some of my favorite posts about writing, starting with this one, originally published on …
What Are You Waiting For?
It happened again the other night. I’d made a new acquaintance, and in the course of our chatting, the subject of writing came up. “I have an idea for a story,” she said. “I’ve even written some of it.” “Why …