I love the title of the recent She Writes contest: Passion Project. It perfectly sums up how I feel about my current work in progress, which is based on the diaries of my great aunt. For my family (and anyone else who is interested), I am publishing excerpts of her entries on “Hattie’s Blog,” choosing representative …
Yesterday I read an article about “20 Blogging Milestones” designed to help bloggers “figure out if you’re on the right path.” What I found inspiring about the list was all the small successes all of us, but writers in particular, might miss celebrating along the way or later forget altogether as we keep trying to …
Writing is not a zero sum game. Regardless of where we are in the writing journey or what our specific goals are, we all can take joy in the success of other writers, learn from them, and draw inspiration and energy from their success.
For anyone who does creative or artistic work of any kind, take the time if you haven’t already to watch Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk on nurturing creativity. Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love, shares her views on why we should consider ourselves to be conduits rather than the embodiments of genius. Particularly if you …
As I continue my journey toward writing my first novel for adults, I sometimes wonder if it is too late in my writing career to add a new genre, if I should just stick with non-fiction, if I should focus more on children’s fiction now that I’ve written one book for middle grades, if my …