I am dreaming of France. This year marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s birth. In the last half a millennia, there is hardly another human who has seen as much praise heaped upon him. To say his body of work is admirable is a mild statement. So, when I set my sights on…
The older I get, the more I want mid-life female protagonists in the novels I read. It’s like we don’t exist. While browsing Pinterest this morning, I came across a quote that starts, “As I get older . . .” and ends with, “Your late 20s are when you start to figure everything out.” Late…
Writing feedback hurts. The other day, literally within a few hours of me doing the “I am amazing at this” dance after I wrote what I considered a killer short story submission, I got an e-mail. Seeing this editor’s name in my InBox brought on a mixture of excitement and fear as it usually does….
Let me be clear, writing is so incredibly hard. However, I breathe the written word. It is my life force, my prana, my life purpose, my escape, my clarity. It is also my most complicated, vicious, taxing, and painful relationship. Nothing comes even close to the challenge a devotion to writing inflicts upon me at…