Julia Cameron defines divas as those artists/creators who have to have everything JUST RIGHT before they can create. She notes that there...

 Taboo, you say? I'm not against leveraging a good taboo now and then. Have done, in fact. Certain cultures have a taboo against writing...

This week at the SFF Seven we're discussing what we wish we'd known when we decided we wanted to write. It's an interesting ques...

This photo is 100% representative of the past two years of writing for me. The picture is from July 2021. I'd just face-planted on a dow...

 Ah, the idealism of the new author. Everything is so shiny. All possibility lays before whatever debut book is about to hit the world. That...

  This week's topic is: The Necessity of Death: Do you have to kill characters for there to be enough risk? What other threats work bett...

 I hope the fact that I no longer live on a boat doesn't preclude nautical metaphors. Because here we are again.  We all know the wind i...

  Grammar Girl website As a writer I’ve got pages and pages of bookmarked websites and a few writer groups I can go to with questions. I’ve ...

  This is a band of smoke from the California fires streaming into New Mexico. It's fascinating what an obvious demarcation it makes in ...

Plot bunnies are everywhere. In everything. In everyone. In snippets of conversations overheard in what passes for public these days. There...

Getting past stuck or numb or despondent or any other major block is as individual as the writer, I suspect. I carry a bag of tools around (...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is "Writing through your Achilles heel - How do you keep writing through [whatever it is that prev...

What, oh what, had babits do I have in my writing? What things do I do over, and over, and over in my books, regardless of genre? Dear r...

Happy Groundhog Day! In celebration of this (dubious) holiday, we here at the SFF Seven will be discussing that THING we find ourselves do...

Enemy Games released Wednesday. *Insert Kermit flail.* You can find it in your preferred format from The Wild Rose Press site . This...

“Who is the hero of your book?” a prospective buyer asked me at my first real book signing. I was in a cozy bookshop in th...

Bear with me. I have a story to tell. This is Perceval. Perceval was rescued by a neighbor who presented the kitten for foster care as a ...

Even when I'm not writing, I'm writing. Always. I mean, I assume everyone has felt like a stranger in a strange land in this life ...

“Even when you’re not writing, you’re writing.” That’s our topic this week. Thing is, I’m not always writing. But I am always writer-...

The beasts have breached the sanctity of the bed! It's adorable, but it's also slightly short on sleep. Still. They have a hard t...