All Heart and Soul: Anna Blake’s Memoir

A memoirist throws herself heart and soul into her love letter to the Colorado prairie.

Top 5 Things To Do With A Fractured Fibula

You can exercise vicarious thrills during a period of enforced inactivity. I am.

Making the Call: Go Big or Go Indie?

There are pros and cons to veering off the traditional path to self-publishing. Ask yourself five questions to decide.

Top 5 Things a Writer Learns at a Publishing Conference

There are a few strategies for making the most of any conference you attend, including these five.

Platform. Got One? You Need One.

Getting a book published, and purchased, is going to be a mean trick without an Author Platform.

Where Old Typewriters Go to Die

Why do writers have such a love-hate relationship with their writing devices?

Strong at the Broken Places

One of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring pieces of writing still inspires.

When Mothers Have Other Priorities

These five books on mothers and daughters helped me clarify my own mother's priorities.

The Three Critical Blogging Chores You’ve Probably Ignored

There are three essential—and easy—chores necessary to maintain your blog's good health.

The Intricacies of Entanglement

The unintended consequences of hiding are worth exploring, as I'm doing while writing my novel-in-progress.

Requirements for Writing Fiction

Required prerequisite for fiction writers: Embrace your dual gifts.

Lily Pads Afloat

The sometimes mysterious behavior of flora we admire is hidden from view.

Why Kill Two Birds With One Stone?

You can express yourself much more elegantly, and much less violently, with some alternatives to an antiquated idiom.

A Letter from a Writer to Her Characters

A writer's characters progress through joy, pain and growth, just like we do. In the process, we all get close.

How Papa and POTUS Got Their Words Down

Leading authorities trust their words to none other than the Writing-In-Sight typewriter.

What Happens When You Let Go

Letting go encourages good habits because it creates space for so much creative abundance to move in.

45 Quotes to Inspire You

No sense flailing around in a creative vacuum. You can't wait for inspiration—find some here.

What It’s Like

You may be possessed by your paints, or smitten with your characters, but life goes on.

Surprise Someone on Wordless Wednesday . . .

Write a few words on Wordless Wednesday and surprise someone with a handwritten note—yours.

Prescription for a Creative Funk

When you find the creative winds deflating in your sails, try a different tack. Take a time out.