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If you subscribe to my blog, thank you. Thank you for reading my thoughts and following my writing journey. I hadn’t posted anything in a while, until today. I was updating and tinkering with my website, and I inadvertently reposted an old blog entry that, if you read it for the first time, may haveContinue reading “A New Page”

Sometimes we call our manuscripts our babies. The works in progress we’ve been pecking away at for more than a decade. The novel we’ve spent years trying to perfect, preparing to send out into the world for others to see. Recently, I finished the novel that began as a tiny infant, just a glimmer ofContinue reading “There She Goes”

I recently enrolled at Southern New Hampshire University (online) to pursue a Master’s in English and Creative Writing. In my first course, Studying the Craft, I’ve already learned so much, and for someone like me, it has been a lot of fun! For a recent assignment, I was given the task of selecting any fiveContinue reading “Discovering My Style”

Sometimes when I read another’s poem and then I read my own, I think that my writing is too simple, too obvious. I think that I shouldn’t waste my $20 to enter a contest that I’m probably going to lose anyway because my writing isn’t deep enough, or it’s too concrete. It’s not award-worthy. ButContinue reading “Comparisons”

I wrote a novel! Yes, finally, it’s finished. I didn’t feel quite as happy and accomplished as I thought I would. I thought I’d burst with excitement. I thought I would leap in celebration. It was rather anticlimactic actually. It was almost as quiet and peaceful as the announcement of the Presidential election winner, whichContinue reading “A Novel Outcome”

I started writing a novel about 12 years ago. It was an assignment for a second correspondence course I was taking through the Institute of Children’s Literature. I had three young daughters, a new teaching job, and dwindling confidence in my writing future. So, I took a break, from the course and from writing theContinue reading “Don’t Make the Time — TAKE It”

Does this happen to you? I open a new book and begin to read. As the storyline begins to take shape in my mind, the house where the characters reside transforms into my childhood home. No matter the book, I subconsciously manifest the rooms of the blue colonial where I lived until I was seven;Continue reading “The House Where Stories Live”

As a kid, I hated yard work, the thought of it anyway. Raking all the leaves in the yard was impossible. Pulling weeds: infinite. Gardening? No, thanks! It wasn’t so much the work itself; it was the never-endingness of outdoor chores. Usually, when my parents and sisters went out to work in the yard, IContinue reading “Reflections on Gardening”

I decided to start carrying a tiny notebook and pen in the zippered pouch I wear to go walking. I wanted it in case I have a sudden inspiration and feel the need to write something down. It’s what writers do, so I’ve heard, and I thought I’d give it a try. I do oftenContinue reading “Inspirations”