Category: Musings

I want to tell a story. At the curtain call for a sold-out performance of Ode to Agatha, a show I wrote and directed in 2017, I presented awards created by my company to individuals involved with the production. One of these is the Diamond Mask Award for Excellence in Performance. It’s awarded by audiences… Continue reading I Believe in You

Writing is an art. In many of my posts, I discuss the business side of writing--the work behind the works. I’ve talked about marketing, handling rejection, perseverance, practice, and validating the actual nuts and bolts labor of writing as genuine work. There are a lot of mechanics in being a writer. But there’s a great… Continue reading Food for Thought

I have been musing on this topic for a while. The idea of showing grace to your fellow writers. Before I explain what I mean by that, let me tell a quick tale that inspired this post. Sometimes, when I need to get my brain working on stories or ideas, I’ll look up author websites.… Continue reading A Show of Grace

Don’t Give Up Being a professional writer can sometimes feel like screaming into the void hoping that some alien species out there will pick up your transmission. Will anyone hear you? See you? Find you and your work? We have so many options for publishing now, and that also means we have so much more… Continue reading Don’t Give Up

We all face it. The looming terror of the Great White Page. Pulling up a brand new work can be a daunting task. From all the way back to the first clean piece of paper spooled into a typewriter to a new document opened in Word with the little cursor blinking at us, all of… Continue reading The Great White Page