A New York Times best-selling author Jenna Blum interviewed Ann Patchett for A Mighty Blaze. Ann Patchett’s new novel, Tom Lake is a New...

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As if it were me, I can still recall the protagonist Mick Kelly sitting in the bushes in a rich neighborhood listening to Beethoven for...

Do you dream your articles and books were read by thousands, even millions? Do you wish you felt secure enough to lose your “day job” and...

Have you ever seen a book receive a publishing deal or great reviews and wondered why that writer and not you? Or do you question how...

I have told both my children that my number one job is to keep them safe. I include physical safety. When they were young, I taught them...

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How to hold both identities close Maybe you decided to be a writer before or after becoming a mother. Either way, you learned that...

“You pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it,” Denzel Washington It has been raining for days here in...

The WRite Life: What does it mean to wear a pair of Tory Burch? My 13-year-old daughter, Anika and I were shopping at a discount clothing...

The WRite Life: Yes, I say you can I tend to be slow. I write slowly and I rewrite even more slowly. Sometimes I become frustrated with...

The Write Life: Writing a letter to ONJ. When I was eight years old, I wrote a letter to Olivia Newton John. On brown, thin, lined school...

The WRite Life: Balancing summer fun, children out of school, and writing goals. My daughter, Anika has been out of school for three...

The WRite Life: More than a summer vacation. I passed by a Hawaiian woman selling leis on a sea rock wall by the road while walking to...

The WRite Life: How to build the confidence to write. Having the confidence to sit yourself down in a chair and write sometimes feels too...

The Write Life When I was young, I dreamed of being a writer. I loved the idea of creating stories. Stories about strong, interesting,...

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The WRite Life, A Life of Conscious Purpose full of Joy, Tears, Laughter, and Stories My nine-year-old daughter, Anika was assigned to...

The WRite Life I believed that 2022 was going to be MY year, my birthday being 02/02/2022. Not that I spend much time on numbers, or that...