writing life

Quarterly Writing Update

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

2022 Word: Family

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...

Investing in 2021

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...

A (Little More Than) Mid-Year Review: Finding the Joy Again

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...

Writing by Quarters: Q2 Results

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...

Riding the Monster: Creativity & Internal Editors

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...

Author Erin Dionne