- Writers on Writing: All the Advice You Need for 2026
We’ve collectively made another trip around the sun, welcoming in a new year. If you’re anything like me, the start of a new year means setting goals and, I hesitate to say it, making resolutions. And since you’re reading a blog about writing, there’s a good chance one or two of your resolutions for 2026…
- Christmas Is For Family Fiction
Every year before Christmas, I decorate the graves in the cemetery where five generations of my family are buried. This year was special, because I had just published the first book in a series about my family’s history. Catching It Lovely fictionalizes the journey of my great-great-grandparents, Alexander and Jane Scott, from Scotland to Colorado….
- New Year’s Resolution: I’ll fight with you
It’s that time of year again: when the lifestyle choice that is writing comes under interrogation by the rest of the world asking, “What’s your New Year’s Resolution?” So we buy new notebooks, and we buy new craft books, and we tidy our offices, and we form our exciting resolutions. This year I will stop being a blob and do it!