HR Writers Guild

I have been very productive (a relative term, I know). I am at the very threshold of 35,000 words in my novel, and I work on it quite consistently. Sometimes I write a few paragraphs only to a hit wall, and I erase them and start over, but it’s always for the best. It’s easier [...]

Good morning! And it is, indeed, a good morning. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling pretty satisfied with my progress so far. In the beginning of the year, I established goals for myself, and I consider myself on my way to achieving them; if I haven’t been able to resolve each one [...]

If we liken our status as writers to football, then I have just suited up. Somewhat of a college player, I have been out of the game for a while, only recently drafted in by Coach Cindy. I’ve taken a few good runs at the sleigh but now I am ready for the real thing. [...]

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 [...]