After weeks of working on nonfiction pieces, a picture book, and toying with an idea for a YA novel, I am diving back into a daunting/exhilarating adult novel.   I am writing without editing, and thus racking up a word count that looks more impressive than I’m sure this first draft text is. I still […]

Lately the hardest part of writing for me has been using the time I have well. Okay, so maybe not just lately. Maybe that’s always a challenge.   There are a million things I could do, sitting in front of my computer, alone, in a study room at my local library. I tend to start […]

This weekend I sat down for a writing session, intending to write and write and write until it was time to make dinner (which, for the record, was a clean-out-the-freezer extravaganza of dumplings, fish sticks, and chicken tenders; I was a heroine).   I started, but quickly found that wasn’t where I needed to be […]