Welcome to the first WIP Wednesday of 2018! And if it’s your first WIP Wednesday of all time, well, here’s how it works. I share something I’m working on, and you can do the same in the comments section. Your excerpt can be up to 500 words maximum. Please don’t share any explicit sexual content, although some profanity is fine.

Happy New Year! If you read my series on making it the best year ever, you know I’m pretty excited and I have a lot of big goals. Right now, the year is shiny and new. But what’s going to happen to us when it’s not so factory-fresh? When it’s, say, early March, and the weather’s bleak and blah, and

One of my readers requested this post! I was happy to do it, because winter and the holidays bring great inspiration to me. These could be used for fiction, journaling, or just about any other creative writing. And I’m keeping them G-rated in case any teachers want to use them for their students! (And if you are a teacher, check

Hey, everybody! Welcome to the last installment of my series on making next year the best year of your life. This one is my favorite part! I’ll start out by telling you about my favorite comic strip when I was a kid: Peanuts. In one strip, Lucy is at the mailbox, telling Charlie Brown that she’s just sent in her

Hey there! Welcome back to this series about making the next year your Best Year Yet. Last week, we talked about choosing one word that we hope will sum up the next year. Mine was romance.  Other people’s words included writing, writing and networking, exploration, restoration, regeneration, completion, change, and focus. Some people don’t make resolutions, period, which is fine. In fact,

Most readers of my blog know that I write some steamy romance. A few of you even know that in the past year, I got a new job editing “sweet romance,” which is the industry term for romance with no sex at all. I’ve always enjoyed all kinds of romantic stories and movies as a reader and a viewer, so