HR Writers Guild

Well, November flew by and I sucked…and not in a fun way! I had been all excited about the November novel thing and I wrote absolutely NOTHING. I have plenty of excuses: I was burnt out from work because October was a tough work month; I had a lot of poetry events I wanted to [...]

I had a member of our writing group ask me recently how much and how often I wrote. My reply was short and sweet: Not enough. Why? Well I have a ton of good excuses. Where should I start? This year has been one of the worst. Every time I look up there’s another fire [...]

I recently read a couple of articles about the Publisher’s Weekly (PW) top 100 books for 2009. What I found to be really stunning, like so many writers in my community, is that out of 100 authors only 29 were women. In the top 10, NOT 1 author was a woman. In this day and [...]

I know I just posted my introduction, but I thought of some slash fiction I wrote on April 7, 2008. I wrote it as an assignment for an Authorship and Discourse discussion about authorship and fandom and audience participation in one’s authored world. I chose to slash (it is a verb, right?) Great Expectations. It [...]

As an early and lifelong reader, and a fiction writer since I first learned my ABCs, these past four years have been particularly grating. During these years, I have been writing, but I haven’t been exercising the creative gears that have always made up such a crucial part of my identity. By joining this critique [...]