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It took the bite of an orb weaver to make me realize the enormity of it. My husband had left me with two small boy children a couple of months before. He’d taken a job in another state. Our [...]

(Photo by Martin Lenker on Unsplash) It’s 5 a.m. Women everywhere—professional women, mothers, students, writers, dog walkers—I salute you, my fellow cave-dwellers. This may be the only piece of the day we can call our own. The [...]

When my older son arrived from college for a rare weekend visit home this summer, one of his first questions was, "So, Mom, are you still writing at four or five in the morning?" "Yes," I said, "still beating [...]

 In one of my favorite Miss Marple adventures, one of the suspects is cleared of suspicion when he provides an alibi--and announces that the plot dilutes! Which I love. The idea, that is, not the reality of a diluted [...]

For the past few months, I’ve been blogging about the challenges of the early stages of writing a book. Mostly these have to do with fear, procrastination, and stall. And mostly the way to deal with these is to just [...]

(Photo by Annika Treial on Unsplash) I've had quite a few excellent conversations with my ADD coach, Cam Gott, about how much overlap there is between ADD and Creativity. ADD is all about proliferation without a whole [...]

(Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash) In April I was on the faculty at the Harvard Medical School Conference on Publishing, which was pretty great, and I also got to sit in on a talk, which, being [...]

I just came back from one of the most exciting conferences I've been to--the Harvard Medical School Continuing Medical Education Conference on Publishing. I was on the faculty for the first time this year and it was truly an [...]

Once you've gotten yourself started writing, even in the smallest possible steps, and you've bumped into and gotten past some of the limiting beliefs I talked about in February and March's blog and Linked In articles, then you are ready [...]

Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash I was back from the James River Writers Conference in Richmond when I realized I was dealing with an uncomfortable truth. I had been sitting at the conference, listening to agents and editors [...]