Novel Concepts

Novel Concepts

An MFRWAuthor Post- and check out the other posts on the hop! I don’t do it on purpose. I don’t sit down at the computer and say ‘hmm, what’s the important message of the day and how can I squeeze it into chapter three?” It doesn’t work that way, at least not for me....
Yes, in Barcelona

Yes, in Barcelona

An MFRW Post – and check out the other blogs on the hop!   By the time I was nineteen, I’d been living on my own in Boston for two years, achieving high grades, working two jobs and rooming with women that would become my best friends. I thought I knew a few...
Art and Soul

Art and Soul

I am six years old, sitting in my playroom with one of several cartoon-covered journals in my hand. The pages are scribbled with thousands of single-syllable words in pinks and purples: character names, magic spells, fantastical places I’m going to visit one...
Reading and Writing Is Living

Reading and Writing Is Living

I used to wonder how I would react to true tragedy. As a Type A creative with a Gemini star sign and enough anxiety to power the grid at least for a day, I wondered this probably more than I should. But the answer was always the same–I would read my way through....