Writing Tip: Pick Your Theme

In an attempt to get back to our regularly scheduled programming, I’m once more sharing a writing tip I’ve learned while drafting…

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“But I’m NOT Racist!” (or, Show, Don’t Tell)

(This isn’t going to become a political blog, I swear. But I’m in the “angry” stage of grief right now, and so I’m using my words to help get it out.) I read an article yesterday written by a young Republican woman who, because she voted for Trump, felt the need to clarify that she’s […]

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The Dark Night of the Soul

I’ve been having trouble getting anything done–work, writing, reading, anything–since Wednesday morning. I don’t really have the words for how sickened I feel with the direction our country has taken. I’m terrified for the environment, terrified at the resurgence in hate crimes, terrified for the possibility that so much of what Obama has worked for could be […]

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Writers: Write the Right Story

In my early NaNoWriMo attempts this year, I discovered something I wanted to share…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Walls Around Us

One reader I follow on Goodreads called this “a beautiful little mindf*ck of a novel”, and…

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My Top Things To Do in Ireland

I went to Ireland a couple of weeks ago…

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Writers: Try Anyway

I wanted to share one important lesson I’ve learned in both writing and in life, today on this most important of days…

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The Good Things (October, Part II)

Happy Friday. It’s been a week of lots of writing and too little sleep. It’s also been a week of slight panic at how “old” I am and how I haven’t accomplished some things (namely, marriage, children, and careers as authors) that others my age have…

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MK’s Book Reviews: The Trespasser

I read Tana French’s latest novel and…

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To NaNo or Not To NaNo: That Is The Question

November is coming. For some people, that means Thanksgiving and holiday shopping (if you’re a non-procrastinator, which I definitely am not.) For writers, it means something else….

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