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Lessons Learned from Red Shoes
My friend Kim (aka The Well Dressed Writer) loves red shoes. She says they're sassy and classy and can elevate an outfit from boring to brilliant. She's right. I like comfortable shoes. Clogs. Crocs. Converse. These go-with-everything clearance finds that slip on easy when I'm headed out the door for…
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A Novelist’s Christmas
Up on a bookshelf A reader’s list Filled with Christmas Novels as gifts. Down through the aisles With lots of books, All with metaphors and crazy hooks. Ho Ho Ho A writer would know. Ho Ho Ho A writer would know. Oh, up on a bookshelf Click Click Click Down…
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5 Reasons We Don’t Write
by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales If you're following a blog about writing or hoping to attend a conference about writing, chances are there's a book somewhere inside of you. Some of us get right on it and have no problem getting the words on the page. Others of us struggle. Either…
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30 Thanksgivings for Writers
by Alycia Morales @AlyciaMorales Red ink. Harsh critiques. Rejections. Watching others pass us on their writing journey. These are all things we deal with as writers. The hard things. The tough things. The things that make us wonder if we chose the right career. If we should give up on…
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Sweeter – A Devotion
by Sarah Van Diest @SarahVanDiest O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine. I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the…
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A Written Testimony for Writers
by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales For the past couple of years, my life has been pretty busy. I have five teenagers at home, and I've come to realize that as busy as I thought I was when they were toddlers, I'm much busier now that they are teens. And as…
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