Patricia Harrelson

              Today is Blog Action Day. Bloggers around the world are writing about water as a global issue. The graduate program through which I earned an MFA claimed “writing for social change” as a foundation principle. I found myself surrounded … Continue reading

Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month: NaNoWriMo for short. This is my second year of signing up for this event which boasts 125,000 participant writers from around the world. In my little corner of the world, … Continue reading

Author Kate Evans writes in not one but several genres: fiction, poetry (Like All We Love), non-fiction (Negotiating the Self), and blogging. In each case, she demonstrates clear competence managing the distinctive features particular to the genre. Kate is one … Continue reading

Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen I often feel like I don’t have the time I want or need to focus on my writing. That’s why it works for me to stay connected with other writers who … Continue reading

Electing to self-publish my book Between Two Women was not an easy decision. I wanted my book to be selected by a publisher for I believed that would be the ultimate acknowledgement that the work was worthy—both in terms of … Continue reading

A common practice among bloggers is identifying and annotating the blogs they have been reading that might also be of interest to their readers. Sometimes this is done on a regular basis, say every Saturday, and sometimes it is the … Continue reading