In one of my books, there's something called a Volunteer Year. Technically, in this book, children become adults at the age of seventeen...

The other day I kind of had a little surreal moment. I'd just gotten out of my car and was heading into the grocery store where I work....

Okay, so the title is a little misleading. I haven't traveled the world. At least, not all of this one, and not yet. I have, however,...

In a previous post, I mentioned that I am usually working on several things at once. All based upon mood or a scene that suddenly pops...

This is supposed to be a fun one, so I'm not going to do the extremely hard work of defining a trope, discerning it from a cliche, and...

First of all, I need to declare that I am a procrastination queen. I am the type of person that, even though I have time available, I...

Writers are very subjective beings. If you find one that isn't, I'll be shocked. A lot of our ideas can come to us from anything we...

I'm not going to lie, this is going to be an entirely random post that isn't writing related in the slightest. I have no regrets. (It...

As a member of the literary community, I'm going to assume you've heard the phrase 'feminine rage' at least once. If not, let me break it...

I have a friend (Hi Tara!) ask me recently about writing character descriptions. Specifically: How do you describe people without it...