Here you'll find current musings, as well as the archives from two blogs of yesteryear: YoungMarriedMom and What I Learned While Writing a Novel. Please comment and share. We love well when we are in conversation with one another.
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 […]
You ever get in the mood for a really good sports movie? I do, and this weekend I satisfied my craving with A League of Their Own. Summertime often puts me in the mood for sports films, but another driver this time was my constant need for pep talks as I work through my […]
I’m in the midst of a home renovation, and the most recent stage has involved a good deal of interior painting. Painting a room is like writing, in the sense that painting itself is only a small percentage of the whole process. There’s choosing the colors, cleaning the walls, spackling, washing or sanding post-spackle, taping, […]