Last year, I began chronicling my mindset shift/strategy shift of "writing by the numbers." If you want to read about that, you can...

First, you need to know that this word came to me on its own, in early December. I started thinking about 2022, and it was the first...

Grafton, Good Dog September 27, 2005--January 2, 2022 Grafton the Good Dog joined us on March 27, 2006, care of Save A Dog, Inc....

It's time for my annual wrap up and reflection. My guiding word for 2021 was "invest." As the pandemic droned on, I wanted to put my...

As I've detailed in previous posts, this year I'm working with my writing on a quarterly basis. I set goals for how many days I want...

Back in the LiveJournal days, we bloggers did a feature called "Five Things on a Friday". I'm feeling that today. Here are my five...

My critique group met last week, and we paused our regularly-scheduled reviews of one another’s work to take stock of how we were doing...

As seen in this post, I shifted how I approached my writing life in 2021. I'm setting goals per quarter, and since yesterday was the last...

Friends, do you know this monster? It's the one that sneaks up behind you, a cold claw on your shoulder, hot breath in your ear, and...

I decided that I would reorganize my creative life in 2021, after struggling so much during the early part of the pandemic. I broke this...