Writing Season: Use the End of the Year to Hit the Finish Line

Oh no. We have to write during the holidays, don’t we? Cue the angry stares and pitchforks from the murderous writing mob.
Y.A. Kafka: Finding Agency in Childhood Trauma Narratives

... our culture’s childhood trauma stories are not private anomalies but common societal failures that implicate all of us.
To avoid discrimination in Hollywood, I had a secret baby. It didn’t work. Here’s what did …

What had suddenly seemed like the perfect way to not ruin my career made me now feel insane. I had to find a way out.
The Exodus

Consider this my Emergency Service Announcement for Writers. Take it, leave it, or tell me to piss off, but someone needs to say it.
The Aqua Doors of Summer

Within this little port I’ve found moments of being that I haven’t found elsewhere.
Survival Check: Beating Burnout

Everything I loved about the process evaporated, replaced by bone-aching exhaustion that induced a mixture of nausea and the constant threat of tears.
Beating Back Fear

Is it fear that I can’t do it anymore? That I overpromise results and then freeze in fear that I can’t fulfill that promise?
The Right to Write

As a writer, though, I am troubled by this trend of telling people what they can and can’t write.
Wisdom of a Black Belt

I learned something that day. Genuinely. And it's a lesson I want you all to apply to your writing, too.
Being Your Hardest Critic

OK isn’t good enough for me and shouldn’t be for you either. The idea is to send out your best work, and YOU need to be hard enough on yourself to be the ultimate judge of that.
The Creative Partnership That Saved Our Marriage

Every decision we had to make for our own careers became a fight, and every fight became a huge question of whether we were going in the same direction.
This is How I Fangirl: I Wrote a Novel

But the way I see it, all fiction originates as fan fic in one way or another.
Why Creative Pursuits are Worthy Work

... if we’re not doing the thing that makes us tick, are we really living to our potential and sending the right message to those that might be watching and emulating?