In April, 2010, when Writers In The Storm was launched, we never contemplated making 50 posts, much less 100. We started this "blogging thing" as part of our yearly critique group goals. We didn't know we'd have so much fun. We didn't know we'd have so much to say. We didn't know we'd LOVE IT!

By Charlotte Carter Athletes are an interesting breed. As a youngster I used to play baseball in a nearby vacant lot and football in the street with the neighbor boys. In school, I was on intramural teams. I was a tomboy but not an athlete. My daughter came along. She was (still is when she […]

I’m all grown up now, and am no longer limited by a toddler’s vocabulary. Like you, I am a writer. Writers get high on stringing together words, many words. Right?

Why then is this itty-bitty two letter word becoming more difficult for me to say?

Setting Boundaries Around Your Writing by D.A. Watt This morning, while basking in the early morning quiet in my yard, I studied my little orchard of citrus trees – a navel orange, a mandarin, and a lemon. My dwarf lemon tree, over-laden with ripening fruit, bent uncomfortably, its branches pulled taut like broken bones, twigs […]

by Charlotte Carter Every writer gets rejects. But they don’t have to be demoralizing. Some years ago I was writing magazine articles. I’d allow myself ten rejects per article then moved onto something else. (I did manage to sell a ‘few’ articles, but what a struggle!) During that time I had my annual physical exam. […]