Why on earth would I place lessons learned on the writing craft under the researching category instead of the section on writing?  For me, studying the writing process really is separate from actually sitting down and doing it.  Naturally, there…

Last weekend, I attended a SCBWI Missouri retreat with editor Cheryl Klein. I might come to think of it as the “Toads and Diamonds” retreat. Word gems dropped from Cheryl’s mouth almost every time she opened it during her critiques…

This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,– Emily Dickinson As I start this blog, I do feel like I’m flinging words out into space.   But I wrote for years before I had anything published.  It…