A blog about a trip to London, a gregarious Cockney writer, the proper way to brew tea and the joys of using Microsoft Word's "Break" feature. Sounds like a jumble? Read on!

Woody Allen said, “80% of success is showing up.”

Julia Cameron discusses at length that “the role of an artist is to show up for the work and allow it to move through them.”

My New Year’s resolution for 2011 is to show up for my writing. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

It took me years to discover that I am an A.D.D. writer. For more than a decade I’ve gone from manuscript to manuscript, even jumping from one to another then back again. I wasn’t having a writing problem, I was having a finishing problem.

Jenny Hansen writes women's fiction, chick lit and short stories flavored with a large dash of humor...