Happy Friday the Thirteenth! This has the possibility for being a very good day for you, for me, and for all of us. Hop on over to our Writers in the Storm Facebook Event Page to read about and participate in today's event: Write Up A Storm. You can write for an extended stretch or hop […]

Writers in the Storm is having its annual “Writing Event” on Friday, April 13.  Write Up A Storm is a one-day sprint-writing bash on Facebook, designed to motivate and sustain your writing throughout the day. Even if that day job impinges on your time, you can participate before work, during lunch and after hours. We’ll be […]

Before I begin this post, I have to share that my book cover for P.R.I.S.M. took second place in the Young Adult category of the JABBIC Contest, sponsored by our own Julie Glover's RWA Houston Bay Area chapter! At the beginning of every year, as the resident science and science fiction geek here at WITS, I […]

 Need to tone and tighten the middle of your WIP? Have a saggy, lackluster character that needs work? Feel like junking your half-finished, used-to-sparkle story? Don't. Today I have a simple tip for you to brighten your character and/or your plot. Go another way. I first heard these words in reference to life's struggles. You know, […]

I am a shark when it comes to reading. Always have been. In elementary school I walked home for lunch, book in hand, reading. The neighbors told my mother, urging her to tell me not to read on the twenty-minute walk. But I walked that same stretch of sidewalks on three streets four times a […]