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A few weeks ago, I began to dip into the book, The Artist's Way . In case you don't know it, it's a 12-week workbook for crea...

"I don't want to be somebody's sweetheart—I want to be somebody!" Denise declares to Sam in the fourth episode of "Th...

I haven't written much in the last couple of months, what with holiday planning and cooking, and all the concentrated work that was nece...

A couple of years ago, I wrote about how I got through the darker months of winter by listening to melancholy music . This year, I've...

During a lull at the library yesterday, I began to browse around for "best of" book lists for children, middle-schoolers and teens...

"Can you recommend a really good children's book?" I hear this at least once a shift when I am working as a substitute re...

I've had a migraine headache for the past 24 hours (my first full-blown migraine ever). It goes away for a time and then seems to get re...

Mary Amato was kind enough to respond to my query about how a writer knows when she is "done" with a project: How do I know wh...

Why blog? This is a question I've asked myself recently whenever I guiltily remember that I still have one. It's certainly not for...

Before my current gardening binge and heavy editing workload started, a few weeks ago I emailed writer friends and asked them the simple que...