I have a thick skin. Having a large family can give you that! That doesn’t mean I don’t get upset. I do. I’m crushed every time I get a rejection but…I give myself a very short grace period to be hurt, and then I do the proverbial “get up andContinue Reading
I had a dream to be the next Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird), or J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye). What do these three writers have in common? They wrote one spectacular novel and were able to live off the royalties for theContinue Reading
August 15th is National Relaxation Day. Fourth-grader Sean Moeller of Michigan is said to have founded the day in 1985. The Des Moines Register reported on the 9-year-old boy’s thoughts on the matter. “People don’t think enough about relaxing,” he told the paper. “They think too much about working, andContinue Reading
by Anita Kushwaha Ernest Hemingway famously said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed.” While this quote might seem a tad hyperbolic, it nevertheless speaks to the costs of leading an artist’s life. The deeply personal investment it takes to share partContinue Reading
~Writing Well Wednesday Tip~ When you go for a walk, how fast do you go? I’m not talking about whether you push yourself to go fast or slow. I’m asking, when you go for a walk, and you’re just walking your “normal” pace, what is that pace like? Walking speedContinue Reading
~Writing Well Wednesday Tip~ If you’re walking on the road, you’ve got to be more careful than ever. According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Association’s (GHSA’s) most recent report, nearly 6,000 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2017. That’s a 27 percent increase over the number of pedestriansContinue Reading