Foundational documents are the baseline, off-the-page information I must know about my novels’ community, characters, and time frame with which the story takes place.

When more time is not the solution to your writing problem, it could be because -- in some ways -- it’s just a different type of procrastination problem.

Being a published author means I have to regularly confront the scariest part of being a human – being critiqued. Recently, I read my first truly brutal book review of something I wrote. In the category of roses and thorns in the book business, this was definitely a thorn.