The Writer's Pen

How Writing is So Similar to Trail Running... "Writing is like a marathon, not a sprint!" We writers have heard this before. Writi...

This was the question a fellow author and I answered the other day when we met to discuss trends in publishing.  Our answer was most...

To Battle! Heroes and Goals Developing the goals of your protagonist is essential to telling his story. What goal awaits him at the en...

Will I Ever Laugh Again? Back in the 1990s, I read a book by Barbara Johnson that I never forgot. Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be H...

Where is God? In my last post, I wrote about that foggy brain feeling caused by grief. I wrote about how strange everything became aft...

The Grief Journey Back in 2014 when my older sister was diagnosed with stage 4 colon and liver cancer, my grief journey began. ...

Look Out!! As I sat in my office this time last year, contemplating what my "word for the year" would be, I had no idea what...