To say this has been a year, well… this has been a year. I’ve done a lot of reinventing in 2022, and it has felt amazing. The week...

This is my 10th anniversary participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It’s an organization that promotes writing an...

At the beginning of a life or at the beginning of a process, we never know the outcome. We sometimes imagine the possibilities. We take...

I read voraciously for several reasons across many genres. I’m a lover of the classics and literary fiction. As an English teacher, I...

Book or movie? It’s an age-old question. I teach a Reading Literature/Reading Film class where we examine this very question. I am an...

Growing up, I had a short bucket list. There were two certainties on it. One, I wanted to be a mom. Two, I needed to write. Little did I...

I’m not sure whether my curiosity for nostalgia originated from my mother’s side or my father’s. I listened to the tales of lives of...

The perfect CP Match is a relationship between two writers with the intent of making each other’s work stronger. It’s important to...

While I am not an editor by trade, I have been editing my students’ creative and expository writing for 20+ years in addition to working...

There are many misconceptions about writing life. My experience hasn’t been any of those things. Do I love writing? Yes. Am I glad I’ve...

I always have the most fun building the bones of the story before I even begin writing. At that stage, the possibilities are endless....

Finding the right voice was one of the most difficult challenges I faced while writing ALL THAT IS SACRED. The novel involves five...

People always ask why I wrote ALL THAT IS SACRED. They want the behind-the-scenes story. I get it. That’s why I teach a film class...

When I worked as a graduate teacher’s assistant at Southern Connecticut State University, I heard the term Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) for...

It’s been a month since I signed my first book deal with Red Adept Publishing to publish my women’s fiction novel, ALL THAT IS SACRED...

So, let’s talk honestly and to the point. Writing is a messy habit. It involves a whole lot of process to get it just right. I think it’s...

It’s easy to get lost looking for writing resources. When I first signed up for Twitter to build a social platform, I simply didn’t know...

I plan on dedicating this blog to my writing, all messy aspects of it. I hope some of what I share will speak to you or be helpful to you, a