What's on Your Writing Desk?

No Healthy Writer's Club post today...because I am at a ZERO on the healthiness scale this week. Too much candy...no running...getting over a cold...some weeks, I guess healthy just doesn't happen. And now, [insert clever transition to real post]. <---Yes, this is an indication...

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Healthy Writer's Club: Even Breaks are Productive

Welcome to The Healthy Writers Club! As writers, we hear a lot about the "butt in chair" tactic, which is great for our manuscripts, but not so great for the actual butt in the chair. Every Friday, I'll be posting about how healthy I've been that week and how it connects to writing....

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Have You Met Your Heroes? An Evening with Lois Lowry

I know I've said this before, but when I was in about the fourth grade, the book The Giver by Lois Lowry changed my life. I'd never read a book quite like it, and it basically stirred my little mind and gave me the direction for the type of stories I wanted to write. In fact, my...

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Let's Pretend We're All Human Beings for a Few Minutes

I'm veering really off-topic from my usual posts today because there's something weighing on my mind. This morning, I read two articles. One about political posts on Facebook and Twitter destroying friendships, and another about a teen girl who committed suicide because of bullying. Okay,...

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Rejection isn't personal-- it's trite but true

We hear it all the time-- "rejection isn't personal." When I queried my first book, I never felt like I personally was being rejected, but what was hard was feeling that rejection was personal to my story. It wasn't so bad when I got a rejection on a simple query. At that point,...

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Healthy Writers Club: How Story Structure Gives You Freedom

Okay, first off-- the winners from the You Are a Real Writer contest have been chosen! Winner of the $10 gift card: Adrianne Russell! Winner of the 10 page critique: Tony Dutson! Winner of the 5 page critique: Reece Hanzon! Congrats to the winners, and thanks again to the rest...

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