1. Get started! Incredible author/illustrator, Melissa Sweet said: “We don’t have to know what we’re going to make, we just have to get started.”
Category: Inspiration
Thoughts for Writers from a 24 Hour Play Festival
Last month, I participated in a 24 Hour Play Festival as a playwright. Essentially, I was locked in a theatre with a group of writers
TEACHING AND WRITING
Teaching was my first passion. Even before I went to school, I played teacher with all who would study under me. And then I became
Commitment: Upstream by Mary Oliver
In her book Upstream the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Mary Oliver says of creative commitment, “There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless,
You Will Always Be Creative
This post really resonates with me this month, so I’m sharing it again. Recently, an old friend wrote to say that he feared his days
Meet the talented Dutch illustrator, Nynke Talsma
CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Valentine’s Day seems like the perfect day to write about and share my love of picture books and talk about the illustrator
WRITERS' RUMPUS 