I spent much of my life on Vancouver Island, BC, on the temperate west coast of Canada. The seasons there are less defined than other parts ...

  “There is a time and a season for everything.”   (Ecclesiastes 3:1.) In my early years of writing. I was facing a deadline and didn’t have...

Ask yourself what motivates you to write and what "jumper cables" get your creativity running on all cylinders. Steph Beth Nickel ...

Image by Dreamstime.com We’ve all worked on writing projects that we loved (passion projects), and projects we’ve---well, loved less. Lady B...

Interruptions stop us... We’re all familiar with interruptions. They may be small interruptions : a phone call or text message or visitor ...

  Parched, like a drought stricken land, the ideas sit half formed. They wait for a gentle rain to grow and burst into bloom. This summer my...

I long to be a writer enjoying the hazy days of summer like I did as a child; sitting with a scribbler in the shade of the cherry tree li...