Last Friday, in honor of November being the month of NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo, I shared links to some articles/blog posts about how other writ...

Happy Monday! As Carmela mentioned in h er Friday post , some of us have taken the leap, challenging ourselves to boost our output throughou...

Happy November!  Today I'll be sharing some resources I've gathered in preparation for beginning a new writing project. But first, i...

Knowing I'd be one of the last TeachingAuthors to blog about first draft fears brought its own fears: would I have anything left to sha...

Reading Mary Ann's post on Monday reminded me of something Madeleine L'Engle says in  Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Ar...

I know first-hand: writing a novel can easily overwhelm – both the writer and the writer’s life. I liken the experience to Alice’s, when sh...

If you allow me to slip into "teacher mode" for a moment, let's have a show of hands.  How many here are participating in Nati...

I'm hoping to make this post quick. You see, I'm working on my own novel writing challenge this month. As JoAnn and Mary Ann have ...

     It's like driving a car at night.  You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.--E. L. Doc...

Inspired by this week's blustery autumn weather and Poetry Friday, I wrote a windy weather poem. Wind grabs the bird feeder, tosses i...

Today I'd like to respond to an Ask the TeachingAuthors question submitted quite some time ago. A reader named Derin wrote to us about ...

A speaker at a time-management seminar poured stones into a large glass jar. He asked the audience to tell him when the jar was full. When t...

Mining your memories? That’s only Step One. You still have to refine what you dig up. As Esther says in her Wednesday post, people, places, ...