We all long for something we don’t have. Currently, I am longing for a normal life. One where all the drama unfolds in my fiction and doesn’t spill forth into my real life. I was once at a national SCBWI conference in LA (society of children’s writing and...
So if Cupid came into your life and shot an arrow into you, causing you to fall hopelessly and completely in love with someone, who would be the other person you would want Cupid to shoot the arrow into? Who would you want to be connected to? Why? How do you know that...
For these past few years I have moved from one culture to another, trying on this way of being and that way of being like a person does hats. The strange thing that has happened is I haven’t found a hat that works. Nor can I go back to the first hat because things...
So for the writers out there I have a question. Is it easier to write about a problem that you are in the middle of because you still feel the intensity of the suffering? Or is it easier for you to write about it once you are out of the intensity? Does being away from...
I have this novel I have worked on for years. I have completely gutted it and rewrote it at least six times. The novel mattered to me. I cared about it. It owned my heart. I was willing to pay any price to get it right. I rewrote that thing until I couldn’t look at it...
