The Writing Life

It’s spring and despite my devotion to being B- I am very happy to say my garden is feeling very A+ right now. Three years ago, this space was red clay dirt and eleven–yes, eleven!–azaleas [...]

I have to tell you something about me at age 22, which is rather embarrassing, but first, I need to acknowledge what’s going on in our livewriting space with EMERGE. This month has felt [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about something my dear friend Karen said to me recently…that trying to step into this New Year feels like pushing against an inflated balloon. What she’s describing is a [...]

Essay: Dear fellow writers and friends: Last month, I took a creative and entrepreneurial risk, bringing my values loud-and-proud into my newsletter by announcing WRITEABILITY and the Right to [...]

For the past five years, I have been studying and experimenting as an entrepreneur, alongside my efforts as an author and mentor. Most of this work has been behind the scenes, though some of you [...]

2021 Right to Write Award Recipient: Ingrid L. Taylor Ingrid Taylor lives in Las Vegas, NV Ingrid’s statement: “As a writer and veterinarian, my work often centers on questions of our [...]

2021 Right to Write Award Recipient: Lucille Freeman ​​“One of my fellow writing friends asked me what inspires me to write when I don’t especially feel like picking up pen and paper. My answer [...]

It’s nearly Solstice. As an artist, I celebrate long-light days by turning away from screens, toward an immersive summer of nature, writing, reading, and parenting. I don’t intend to reach out [...]

Landis Wade and I talk about what it means to write horribly wrong in order to establish discernment and competence in our prose. Listen to the Charlotte Readers Podcast as I talk about the [...]

Women Fiction Writers Association featured my debut novel, Still Come Home. Honored to be interviewed by Maggie Smith on the Hear Us Roar podcast where we talk about research, sentence structure, [...]