50,000 Words in November

I don’t have time to join the month-long write-a-thon known fondly as NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, but I’m doing so anyway. Between my full-time day job and my full-time mom-job, writing is certainly pushed to the margins. But I’ve resisted the siren call of NaNoWriMo for two years now, and this year, am […]

Writing in the margins

The past few months have been off-kilter for me, in that I’ve been dealing with something personal I can’t talk about here. (Three cheers for a modicum of privacy in the internet age!) What I can talk about, though, are the challenges I’m facing as I try to write around the margins of a full-time job and […]