Rockets2Writing

I hate first lines. Probably more than the dreaded blank page, because it's the ultimate blank page, they very beginning. But you have t...

Most people think writers are clearly right brained. The right brain after all, is responsible for creativity. So why is it that we frequent...

Two weeks ago my blog celebrated its first birthday. This is pretty significant for a few reasons but mostly because I wasn't sure I had...

The holidays are coming. It's that time of year (and seriously where has this year gone?) where we sit down and think abo...

It's Bullying Awareness Week. So I wanted to take a moment to talk about my experiences with bullying and how I overcame it. When ...

*image from http://yalitsymposium12.ning.com/ This weekend I attended the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium in St. Louis, Missour...

  It's no secret that I'm an adult who reads YA (young adult fiction). However, I don't often talk about why I almost exclusive...

NaNo WriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and I have a love/hate relationship. On the one hand if it wasn't for NaNo, I would not have s...

Writers are crazy. There's no other explanation for it. We write because we love it, but in order to do so, we spend countless hours wal...

Most writers know that an important part of writing and improving your story and your craft is to give and receive critiques. It is impossib...