WARNING:  this is a no-edit zone... Writing is never easy.  Oh, sometimes we get into the flow or the zone and the work flows, but usually that comes after intense planning and...

WARNING:  YOU HAVE ENTERED A NO-EDIT ZONE.  THIS IS VICKI IN CHAT-MODE... NOTE:  I originally wrote this as part of another article, but a reader response was so inspiring that I...

WARNING:  THIS IS A NO-EDIT ZONE... I wrote the initial WRITERS AND MEDICAL ISSUES post and received the following email from author and friend, Sue (SUSAN) KRINARD...

WARNING:  THIS IS A NO-EDIT ZONE... One doesn’t typically think of writers being subject to health challenges due to their work.  But writers are prone to several medical...

There’s currently an enormous buzz about copyright infringement and book piracy--and it appears that a significant number of authors are victims, which makes agents and...

The prospect of creating a new series of novels can be both invigorating and intimidating. Which it proves to be depends largely on how the writer’s mind works.  If s/he tends to...

Life, they say, is what happens while you’re otherwise occupied. I’m not sure if I believe that, but I do believe that you can miss life by being occupied.   We can get caught up...

We all have an internal compass. It comes to us as flashes of intuition, gut instinct.  Sometimes, when danger threatens, it raises the hair on our necks and arms.  At others, it...

Lately, my inbox has been flooded with questions and comments on the Smart Bitches and Cassie Edwards situation.  So rather than respond privately to each of these things, I’ve...