For most people writing is a long, self-directed apprenticeship. You need to be able to focus on where you are going and how you are getting there.
Publishing can be such a slow business that sometimes you can feel like years have gone by and you have only moved an inch from where you started. That’s [...]

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My routine gets upset at least twice a year: the start of school and the end of school. It seems I just get the routine down of balancing all my mothering, teaching, soccer-momming, and writing, then school is over and we’ve got extra time. A few weeks of getting the kids to stop saying, “Mom [...]

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