Finding Motivation When the Muse is Absent
What do you do when your drive to write is gone? (Or perhaps merely on vacation). Do you push through anyway, making yourself write...
The Impact of Writing Spaces
For many writers, a writing space of your own is crucial. It's the place you go to put the words on the page (or the screen), where your...
2017 Writing Recap
How has a whole year passed already? It seems like I just posted the 2016 recap. Maybe I’m just getting old, or maybe time really is...
Hocus Pocus -- Winifred Sanderson's Achilles Heel
Watching Hocus Pocus every year around Halloween is a bit of a tradition for me. It's part of the regular yearly line up along with The...
Cover Reveal!
My first short story to ever be published was "The Lady of the Fog," but rather than a US publisher, this one was picked up by a UK...
Red-Headed Fairy Tales: The Cat Witches
"Huw Llwyd of Cynfael was the seventh son of a family of sons, and therefore was a conjuror by nature." This tale comes to us from Wales,...
Adventures in Scrivener
I’ve tried many different ways of getting my stories out of my head and into a format that others can read. My earliest attempts were in...
Red-Headed Fairy Tales: The Turnip Princess
"What did you do with the beautiful maiden?" The old woman just giggled: "I'm here right now. Why do you keep rejecting me?" This tale...
Red-Headed Fairy Tales: The Lady of the Lake
"She was the most beautiful creature that he had ever set eyes upon, and she was combing her long hair with a golden comb, the unruffled...
Red-Headed Fairy Tales
Many have heard of the fairy tales The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, and a handful of others. These fairy...