Summertime and the Reading is Easy Happy summer!! It’s the longest day of the year. Summer means beaches and barbeques and vacations and staycations. And books. Lots of books.? At…
Looking for Places to Submit Your Writing? Try Submittable. Writers are always looking for new creative opportunities. Finding places to submit your work is overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be any more….
One Skill Every Writer Should Have Something unexpected happened to me when I joined an online writing challenge last year. The rules of the challenge were simple: you?re given a…
Removing the Roadblocks to Writing Writers. We don?t choose the calling, it chooses us. We process our world with words. We are people watchers. We find wonder in ordinary,…
Building Your Credibility as a Writer To become a successful writer you need two things: credibility and a reading audience.? If you’re an emerging writer like myself you may not…
The Magic of Books I love books. Always have. Always will. My mom read to me since before I had memory. The first memory that formed in my…
The Year in Review I can’t believe 2017 is over. Another year has slipped by. On this last day of the year, I completed my fourth online writing…
She Cast Her Cares Upon the Sea That is me at a beach in Rhode Island.? I was watching the sun set and visualizing the life I am creating for myself…
A Fall Haiku I love fall.? The colors actually take my breath away.? I was driving home and saw this tree standing out among a sea of…
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice There is a smell that signals the arrival of fall and I anxiously await its arrival every year. Pumpkin spice. It has magical powers…