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I’ve got the structure and plot of the novel down. I could feel it when I submitted it to the editor I’ve hired and she agreed. It took a solid year to get it from various character [...]

The wedding went off “without a hitch,” as they say, and Brad and I are still soaring from the love, support, and blessings of community that gathered to witness and celebrate our [...]

Flashes of War is two years old, today. To my great surprise, I’m happy to report that invitations to read and present at colleges and organizations continue to come my way. It’s [...]

I’m getting married in 9 days! Then, I’m going here: {View off main floor deck.} All of which is to say: The Writing Life Blog will be offline May 1 – May 26. Meantime, my [...]

Writing is a physical act; it is three-dimensional. It can’t be limited to the distance between eyes to screen, fingertips to keyboard. It can’t be limited to the space between [...]

It finally happened. I’m running along, happy as can be, and the goats are up on the hillside doing their goat thing. They meeaa-aa-aa at me. I meeaa-aa-aa back at them. Around [...]

I have written about 170 pages of the 4th revision of my novel and put about 3 years of work into the project as a whole. If I had to guess, I’d say that about 40-50 pages need to be [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the next offering of my popular Weekly Flashes program will be this July. I’m taking sign-ups for this program right now, which involves 1 prompt (plus [...]

#AWP15 was a whirlwind in the best possible ways, as I found myself in a family of more than 30 war lit authors, veteran authors, veteran bloggers, and veteran teachers. In contrast to [...]

There’s a first for everything. For me, that means this week I will be presenting on a panel of award-winning authors at the largest conference for writers in the world. While I’ve [...]