Jun 26, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer
Not all characters end up as the person they started out to be. I suppose the same could be said of real people too. In the case of Fitz, who you’ll meet in my debut novel, Soul Reaper (more on that later), he started out as an older, surly cop who’d lost his...
Apr 11, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
It was a box. A plain one. Designed to hold paper and yet it contained everything I’d worked on for the previous two years–Chakra launches, workshops, course developments, some successes and all my failures. Everything broken down into one, tiny box that...
Mar 25, 2017 | Craft Your Book, Embolden Your Inner Writer, The Writing Life
Confession: I’ve been indulging in a little Office marathon this week while Joe is out of town. Don’t ask me why. Probably because I’ve already gone through Hawaii Five-O, Death in Paradise, and a handful of others that all had endings I hated. I figured I knew what I...
Feb 14, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer
“When we decide that the journey matters as much as the result, and that we want to have a good time most of the time: we radically alter our personal definition of success.” ~ Danielle LaPorte I remember the first time I had the courage to tell people I was a writer....
Nov 17, 2016 | Embolden Your Inner Writer
Janice Hardy asked an interesting question years ago that has always stuck with me: “What have authors done that made you want to learn more about their book?” It’s had me thinking a LOT about who I am and who I want to be when it comes to my writing. It’s easy to...
Oct 6, 2016 | Craft Your Book, Embolden Your Inner Writer
About 81 percent of Americans desire to write a book and believe they should. That’s over 250 million people in the United States, alone, who want to put their story to paper. If you’re here, that probably means you’re one of them. And yet, only about 305,000 books in...
