I have written about self-imposed deadlines at the Alley before...I am pretty sure it's a struggle for many aspiring authors. We ar...

on FreeDigitalPhotos by Stuart Miles My family and I drove from Iowa to North Carolina back to Iowa again in a week...so I decided to...

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It was 2007. I sat down at my computer, having experienced a divine urge to write again after many many years of doing so just for fun, ne...

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Here's how the typical Christmas morning unfolded when I was a little girl. I'd wake up well before the sun even dreamed of rising a...