That time my husband was a juror and how it influenced Soul Searching
A few years before I wrote Soul Searching , my husband was on the jury for a case where a middle-aged man was accused of sexual miscondu...
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Offensive Language in Fiction
In fiction, sometimes characters are ignorant, rude, or offensive. That's not the author's fault , that's the author's job ....
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Writing and Mental Health
At some point, anticipation to write becomes guilt over not writing enough. This mental line is defined by your expectations: what you thi...
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Conspiracy Theories & Pseudoscience
Conspiracy theories and pseudoscience focus on theories that can't be tested. Real science focuses on theories that can. If one scientis...
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Accessibility of Phrasing
When I was 16, in a creative writing class, I mentioned that a classmate’s story used a lot of big words. Another classmate complained about...
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Toxic Activists
A few times in the past, I've considered appealing to my conservative friends and family by saying I know there are bad liberals and may...
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Judgmental
I grew up in the U.S. deep south as a preacher's kid, and one of the things I realized as an adult is this: the definition of a "r...
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Criticism of the Constructive Kind
When I was 16, I attended a New Orleans writing class where two of the three teachers criticized me for not speaking up more in critique cir...
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The Cost of Typos
When a self-published book has a typo on the very first page, that's two strikes. When it has errors regularly on the next few pages, t...
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On Writing Sex as a Christian
When I was sixteen, I stopped reading a story for a writing class because of the word "hardon." I got in trouble for it later w...
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W. T. Meadows on Developing a Readership
Author W. T. Meadows, a dear friend from college, was kind enough to answer my questions about how he developed a readership for his work. T...
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