That quote has always held true for me. It’s far easier for me to write what I think and feel than to say those things out loud. In my personal life, I’ll reach for pen and paper (more like keyboard these days, but once upon a time it was pen and paper) if I need […]

Hi everyone, I’m Orly and I’m a challenge addict. It started innocently enough. You know, a writing challenge here to get motivated, another challenge there to get a draft done. Pretty soon it became multiple challenges a month. What can I say, there’s just something about being in a group of writers suffering with supporting […]

If you’ve been a reader of WITS for some time, you’ve seen us joke about process envy on a number of occasions. What is it about writers that makes us so convinced someone else has the secret ingredient to the guaranteed-best-seller process? Laura and I were brainstorming a couple of weeks ago and I mentioned […]

Show of hands … How many WITS readers exercise every day? How many of you read every day? Sir Richard Steele said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” I think about exercising every day. But I can almost always find a promising excuse not to exercise—I need the time to […]

First, I have a confession. I had another post planned. Then life happened. You know, that moment when you look around at the clutter in the house and think it would just be easier to move? Or stare at your email and have that momentary, “if my computer ‘crashed’ right now, and I got a […]