I went to my first writer’s retreat with a proposal I wanted to finish. First off, let me say this: the word retreat is somewhat misleading. There’s no spa treatments or beaches involved. Sure it’s fun and hopefully you’ll come home with fresh inspiration, but there’s a lot of work to do. It’s the kind…
If I could give new writers any advice, it would be to believe in yourself. I didn’t, and it cost me decades of time I could have been writing. Other people in my life believed in me. When I turned sixteen, Dad gave me a book on writing. Don, my husband, lovingly badgered me to write throughout…
Recently I remembered a pivotal moment that occurred at a small writer’s gathering I attended in my early, fledgling writing career. I was a few chapters into my first book entitled HOMELIFE: The Key to Your Child’s Success in School. I didn’t have an agent or any connections in the publishing industry, nor even a…
