by Sarah Arthur | Oct 16, 2015 | Writing
About twelve years ago I began freelancing as a writer and occasional speaker. At the time my husband and I were child-free, which meant that, by most writerly standards, I was living the dream. Long, uninterrupted hours of writing, musing, sipping tea, more musing,...
by Ashley Hales | Sep 24, 2015 | Writing
I said something on Twitter the other day that made me stop and think. And made others stop and think. It was this: “Write bravely. Use up all those good ideas now, don’t save them. There will be more. Art comes from abundance.” The idea came in response to...
by Shelly Wildman | Sep 24, 2015 | Writing
I don’t write much about my classes or about being a professor or about my life at an academic institution. Some of that is because I’ve never been comfortable being called “Professor”-anything and some of that is because the stories from my classroom are just...
by Lindsey Smallwood | Aug 31, 2015 | Writing
I got rejected this week. It was an article, a story I was a really proud of, submitted to a prestigious magazine where a couple of my friends have been published recently. I’d polished the prose, even had someone look it over before I sent it in, only to...
by Erin F Wasinger | Aug 31, 2015 | Writing
“… And I was wondering if you’d like to write a book with me.” Sarah asked me this in the rain. Early summer, stalks of rhubarb hugged tightly to my chest. Our feet on the mulch and our children in the driveway. “Yes,” I said. I cried. We hugged, the rhubarb...
by Ashley Hales | Aug 31, 2015 | Writing
Maybe you grew up watching Disney movies like I did. We would sit breathless watching Ariel sign away her voice to the sea witch in “The Little Mermaid.” Eyes glued to the TV, we watched to see if the prince would “kiss the girl” even though she was mute. Now,...
