Howdy, my name is Pamela Tracy, and I'm the guest blogger today.

I've always wanted to be an author. I blame the Betsy books and Ramona. I blame Nancy Drew and Anne of Green Gables. I blame Gone with the Wind.

Had I been male, I'd have wanted to be a serious baseball player. Instead, since I'm female, I'm lucky, and I get to be a romance writer. There's lots of similarities between baseball and writing.

Writers In The Storm is delighted to welcome guest blogger, Tara Taylor Quinn! She's at the Romantic Times Conference in Los Angeles, California this week and she's blog-hopping as part of the It Happened On Maple Street International Blog Tour. We're so excited she was able to pop in to see all of us. Tara will […]

Great stories speak to the writer inside of each of us.

As the writers here at Writers In The Storm discover these of gems of fiction and nonfiction, we'll tell you why we liked them above the many others of their kind.

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?