The blank page doesn’t scare me. I’m one of those writers who has dozens of story ideas, plenty of partially written projects, and fully drafted manuscripts in various stages of editing. However, the daunting task of getting a book all the way to “done!” is more frightening than a weekend marathon of Wes Craven movies. […]

Little did I suspect that texting a non-writing work friend of mine the first pictures of P.R.I.S.M. arriving on my doorstep would start a wonderfulcascade of events. She was at a birthday party for one of our colleagues when she looked at the text. She started squealing and people wanted to know what was going […]

Ann Griffin When, in my fifties, I learned of two cousins and an aunt I had never heard of, their story was so compelling that I decided it needed to be written, and I assigned myself the task. The protagonist and antagonist were both deceased, making it impossible to write it as biography, so I […]

Colleen M. Story  Whenever I visit a pier—any pier—one of my favorite things to do is to walk along and read all the boat names. It’s fun to see what people choose to call their watercraft, but I’ve also found that when I’m lucky, one of the names will have something special to say to […]

Kimberly Brock There was this time when I was in college and working at a local outlet mall around the holidays so everything in my memory is a blur of gift wrap, cinnamon scented candles and rude people. But there was a Dairy Queen at the entrance to the mall and so almost daily, I […]