• Write On, Mom Interview

    Today I have an interview at Jenny Lee Sulpizio’s site. She hosted me for her Write On Mom interview. Head over to her site to read it. 

  • Making Time to Write: Interview with Jody Hobbs Hesler

    I don’t know about you, but hearing about other writers’ hectic lives helps me. It helps me realize I’m not alone in juggling my writing life with my other life responsibilities. Jody Hobbs Hesler is a fellow juggler and tells how she makes time to write (while juggling, of…

  • Making Time to Write: Interview with E.W. Clark

    I’m starting an occasional feature on my blog on Making Time to Write Mondays where I will feature a busy writer (is there ever a not busy writer?)— writer who has to juggle many hats yet is still able to make time to write. Today’s featured writer is a…

  • Making Time to Write Monday: Using a Conference as a Deadline

    Last weekend, I went away for a long weekend to the Mid-Atlantic SCBWI conference. I’d known about it for months, planned ahead in my job, my personal life, and even my writing. I set goals for myself of things I wanted to have accomplished in my writing before I…

  • Making Time to Write Monday: You Only Have 5 Minutes?

    Five minutes? What can you possible do in 5 minutes? A lot. Check this out.   This is my collection of what I’ve done in 5 minute spurts in the last week. It’s a big hot mess. However, every single note to myself was written in 5 minutes or…

  • Making Time to Write Monday: If You Only Have 15 Minutes

    I am a teacher by day. It just hit me this week that I think teaching has forced me to master efficiency. On any given day, I typically have between 0 minutes-60 minutes of planning time. The average is 30-50 minutes. However, there are many days that I’m lucky…

  • Making Time to Write Monday: Pack a Bag

    My husband calls me the “bag lady.” That’s because whenever we go anywhere, I ALWAYS take a bag. You never know when you might need something in it. Today we took a day trip to the closest IKEA store—three hours away. I packed a bag. But I don’t just…