Coping with Hard Situations Through Writing or How a Romance Contest Righted My Upside-down World

Have you ever thought that perhaps it’s the hard situations, not the golden opportunities, that reveal who we truly are and what our calling is? I recently learned first-hand about coping with hard ...

Nature to Novel – How to Use the Natural World as Fiction Backdrop

Use specific, concrete details to take sensory impressions from nature to your novel, using the natural world as fiction backdrop and adding punch and reality to your writing.   As a writer, I...

Beginning a New Book – Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa

To immediately immerse readers in my South African memoir-in-progress, Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa, I’ll write it as an evocative journal filled with sights, sounds, action and re...

South African Memoir on the Horizon

Have events ever come together to give you new direction? Learn how three unrelated events coalesced to point me toward my next book project, a South African memoir.   It’s fascinating how we g...