Insecure Writers want to know: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader?
It’s true. I can no longer just read to enjoy a story. It was in reading other stories that first helped me to create some of my own. When I …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group asks: What writing rule do you wish you’d never heard?
Memoir must be told in story with all the story elements in place. But of course, everything must be true. And that’s why …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group asks: In terms of your writing career, where do you see yourself five years from now, and what’s your plan to get there?
If God is with me, this confounded memoir will be published and successful. To that end, I must trudge on with a redraft of my adventures in college showing why …
Insecure Writer’s Support Group: What is your favorite aspect of being a writer?
For me, I like creating new adventures to explore in my YA short stories. I like finding ways to get my kids—in the stories, in the stories!—into trouble. Of course, …