This week’s blogging challenge was a hard one. Not because I had a hard time coming up with something I’d like to never do again, but because I had a hard time narrowing it down to one thing. There
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Let’s talk “fans”. Fans are awesome. Fans buy our books and read our stories and tell us they love us and we’re pretty, and fluff our egos. Fans enable us as writers to do what we do. I love fans.
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“What Are You Doing?” That’s what my brother-in-law asked the first (and possibly only) time he ever ate cornbread and beans. At least with my family. Most people from the south won’t find anything
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This week's prompt ponders, “What I would invent if I was stuck on an island.” One of my favorite movies growing up was Swiss Family Robinson. It was all about the idea of living in a huge, fancy
Continue readingWeek 8’s writing prompt is: Worst Writing Advice I’ve Ever Received I thought about skipping this week since I don’t have a response. Is it weird that I’ve never received bad advice or indicative
Continue readingIt was bound to happen. I missed the weekly post for the MFRW 52 week blog challenge. I had it typed up. All I had to do was paste it into the website & schedule it. Guess what I forgot to do? Everything
Continue readingThis week’s writing prompt asks us to name five authors (dead or alive) that we’d like to meet. My first thought was, “I have to narrow it down to only five?” Then I thought, “Oh My God…which
Continue readingWeek 5’s prompt is to name a book that influenced my life First, a little background. I was literally that kid whose parents had to take my books away at night so I would sleep. In one house we lived
Continue readingThis week’s writing prompt is What would I do if I wasn’t a writer. I came late to writing — I’ve only been published for a little more than two years and have only been seriously writing for a
Continue readingThis week’s blog topic is, ‘How much of myself is in my writing?’ Well…a lot. In Stitched Up Heart and Locked-Down Heart, the two main female characters are both veterans and both have PTSD. My
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