Not all editing is created equal. Many famed authors have said that the first draft is for the writer, and everything else comes later....

Plants sleep, after a fashion. The sun sits too low in the sky, the ground grows hard and cold, and snow blankets bare twigs that...

Did you know that sea turtles can detect magnetic fields with such precision that they can steer themselves back to their beach of birth...

Start with your tagline

Most of us have heard the phrase physician, heal thyself. When it comes to editing and writing, people will say, “Work on your own book,...

Courage is a decision.

I want to talk to you today about an exceptional man. I don’t know him; I don’t know how much truth there is behind his words or how much...

“You’re one in a million.” We all know the phrase. Technically speaking, we are all one in a million. No one else has ever walked your...

Everything that we take for granted today was someone else’s dream yesterday. Plumbing. Electricity. Internet. Cars. Lattes. Indoor...

My story is under attack. My story is being broken. They hate it. They hate me. Nobody understands what I am trying to create. Why don’t...

It is an unfortunate truth that, very often, we are the worst to the people who love us best. Our boss at work is rude or condescending;...

There is something convenient about the pace of gardening. There is always work to do, but most of it is rarely urgent. Sure, there are...

Work is getting to me. I feel unappreciated and irrelevant. My friends don’t seem to particularly care about any of my thoughts, my...

Gardening can teach us what is within and beyond our control. You can water during a drought, dig trenches in a deluge, and cut away the...

I have said in the past that I don’t believe in "New Year’s resolutions." They are forced and timed in a way that sets most of us up for...

Life life like a garden you get to tend once

I recently reread this book, the first in the Coldfire series, and a long-standing favorite of mine. Now clocking in at about 35 years...

After the last post, a question was posed: why should we consider doing it this way? Today, I want to spend some time answering that...

I want to introduce a new series on this site, which will be about your metaphorical garden and my literal one. Sort of. I don’t mean I...

You finished a draft of your novel. Congratulations are in order! Let’s talk about the next steps. Whenever you choose to edit, remember...