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...

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...

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...

...it became obvious what word I'd use to shape 2021: Invest.

This was not my intended motto for this year. When I started thinking about what I wanted to focus on in 2019, the words that came to...

For the past few years, inspired by friend Jo Knowles, I've chosen a word as a theme for my year. 2017's word was "Prioritize." Today, as...