It’s that time again: September, when I take a month-long social media break and focus on writing. A friend dubbed it “The September Silence,” and it’s a fitting name because that’s what I seek this month each year: a quieter time to fall into one of the things I love most in life. While September […]
Reading for Thought
This morning during breakfast, I read this article about what it means to teach high school writers about being published. There was one line, from a student working on a literary publication for high schoolers, that particularly hit me: Editing for Polyphony forced me to slow down. I began to realize that previously, my eyes […]
Fantastic Writing
When many hear the word fantasy to describe books, they think about swords and sorcery. And sure, there are the obvious stories: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Song of Ice and Fire (the series Game of Thrones is based on), and The Chronicles of Narnia, but fantasy is also Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Audrey […]
Your Wild and Precious Life
There are two things most writers seem almost trained to not talk about: money and the likelihood they will never “make it.” On the money front, it’s everything from how much (or little) writers make…to how important having money to begin with can lead to making more money as a writer. (It’s a topic definitely […]
The No Idea Method of Writing
When I sit down to write something for The Juggling Writer, I always have a good idea what it is I want to say. I might discover much of an entry along the way, but I always have a few chunky bits in my head to get me started and pull me through. Sometimes I […]
The Paris Hours Review
[A disclaimer: I am friends with Alex George, the author of THE PARIS HOURS. That said, I knew Alex’s writing before I knew him (through his old blog). And even if I knew nothing about Alex, this is still the review I’d share…] The Paris Hours Moments after finishing THE PARIS HOURS, I messaged Alex […]
Inspired Writing
I believe this to be generally true: If you wait to feel inspired by bigger things every time you write, it’s likely you will never get much writing done. But I don’t buy into the common belief that inspiration is for amateurs. I have a very workaday approach to writing that I’m sure comes from […]
Hand Writing
My ideal writing morning looks like this: The night before, I think a little about what I’ll write the next morning. The next morning, I wake up between 4:30 – 5:30 and lie in bed a moment thinking about what needs to be written. I wander to the kitchen and drink a glass of water […]
The Professor
My sister was five years older than me, and music (and books) were her refuge. Because she tended to hang out with people a bit older than her, the music she listened to was definitely well ahead of what I bought as a kid. One day on her bedroom floor was an album with a […]
Taking One Last Leap
In one hour and forty-nine minutes, it will be 2020 in North Texas. But I’ve mentioned before that I consider September my new year. And so, this entry is not a recap of the year…nor is it a list of resolutions and goals I wish to accomplish in 2020. At the moment, with the exception […]
The Ambition Machine
[This got a bit long…] We live in a world where so many of us are told we can become anything we want to be. From a young age, we’re told if we simply work hard, all our dreams will come true. (And the sharper side of that message: if they don’t, it’s all your […]
Ten Years
Ten years ago… I was a little more than three months shy of being laid off from my first real technical writing job [the week before Christmas]. I was slowly coming out of a depression that almost ended the things most important to me — including me. I was working on the most “me” novel […]
The September Silence – 2019
It’s that time of the year when I step away from all social media for a month. A friend calls it the September Silence, which is now what I call it. September is a month kicking off several things I look forward to: The tenth anniversary of The Juggling Writer. (It’s funny to me that […]
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