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    I have to say, I am quite excited about the SCBWI Winter Conference this coming weekend.  The funny thing is that I was very clos...

You've probably heard a zillion times that the best writers are well-read people.  Why is that?  Bottomline is "skill".  Twyla...

This week has been a good week for me.  After 13 drafts of a manuscript that I have been working on for exactly ONE year and ONE day, I th...

Unlike some professions or industries where new technology and advances are always changing the playing field, storytelling is an ancient ar...

Its cold and rainy today.  I sit in my local coffee shop and will my muse to be kind and give me just a smidgen of inspiration. I have h...

The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry  ~ Robert Burns, To a Mouse Since starting to work through Twyla Tharp's ...

Some time ago I made a list of everything I wanted to try and accomplish in January when I would be "in between" jobs.  Keeping in...