Happy Children’s Book Week! As an aspiring children’s book author (update: now a published one!) and a mom who I’m pretty sure has read at least 4,345 books this week alone, I decided to take this week to explore the importance of reading to your kids and the...
Losing a job hurts, especially when you weren’t prepared. I was recently let go from my position at a marketing agency, and I’ve spent the last month working toward getting back into the workforce. While this is a little “off-theme” from my usual writing posts,...
Writer’s block is the worst. While there really is no “convenient” time for it, it often seems to come at the most inconvenient times—when you’re up against a work deadline, when you set a goal date, and it’s about to pass, or when you finally actually have time to...
As a writer, I love prompts: prompts for writing, prompts for self-discovery, prompts for assessments, and even prompts for planners. There is something about putting my hobby to good use in all corners of my life that makes it (life) much more enjoyable. Writing...
The quickest and most straightforward answer to the question, “Why do you write?” is “I don’t know.” I have been writing for as long as I can remember – sometime early in grade school when the knuckle on my dominant hand pinky...
