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In my experience, writing a novel is the literary equivalent of acting: an actor has to do research to prepare for a role, in order to become the [...]
May 12, 2022
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During the dozen years my work has been published in magazines and by book publishers, I’ve become accustomed to receiving beta reader [...]
May 8, 2022
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Creative writing is a skill. It’s a craft that takes time and effort to learn a set of skills and to hone those skills. Some folks choose [...]
May 4, 2022
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Lately I’ve seen so many beautifully arranged pictures on social media of authors showing their picture perfect writing spaces, so I [...]
April 26, 2022
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My life recently has been a steady juggle of balancing day work with literary time and family life. Since family life takes priority, I tend to [...]
April 13, 2022
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I’m happy to say that after a couple of weeks of writer’s block because of anxiety at world events, I have been back to chipping away [...]
March 31, 2022
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Lately I’ve been asked on a few occasions about how long I’ve been writing and where I get my ideas. I told them that I’ve been [...]
March 26, 2022
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Happy World Poetry Day 2022. Instead of making a video reading this year (you can watch any of my previous poetry readings on my YouTube) I [...]
March 21, 2022
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Out of curiosity this week I decided to search for some novel writing statistics, specifically how many people write novels. The results were [...]
March 16, 2022
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Global events have sent my anxiety sky rocketing over the past week and I’m finding it harder lately to stick my happy mask on for the [...]
March 5, 2022
Leilanie Stewart 