We’re proud to welcome Misty Simon to A Writer’s House this week.  Misty Simon loves a good story and decided one day that she would try her hand at it. Eventually she got it right. There’s nothing better in the world than making someone laugh, and she hopes everyone...

I wrote my first YA short story when I was a young adult. It was full of the typical teen angst you would expect. Lots of never-ending, die-if-you-don’t-love-me emotion. Even more of the teen hero or heroine as the lone wolf against the world. And every one one of my...

I remember the day I knew I wanted to write romance. I was sitting in my living room, 15 years old, having had a bad case of bronchitis for the previous week. I’d been writing for a few years, mostly teen angst stories where the heroine usually died at the end. But I...

I wish my creativity had a switch. I could turn it on when I have the time and energy to write. I could turn it off at 2AM when I’m trying to sleep but my characters are busy plotting out the rest of my book. I’m grateful for that, don’t think otherwise. I’d be a...

The new year is shedding the moniker new as we move solidly into February. More than likely those New Year’s resolutions are starting to waver as reality puts a crimp in our determination to make this year different from the last. What promises did you make as a...

Social media is a trap, in case you aren’t aware. A time-sucking, soul-draining, brain-numbing trap. And we need it, dammit. It’s one of the areas I’m weak in my writing career. Once upon a time, a writer had to focus on writing. Now, we are editor, agent, publicist....

Contest season has begun! There’s a love/hate relationship between contests and writers. Writers, even those who would never show their work to another living soul under normal circumstances, want the feedback from a reader. Does our story connect with them? Do they...

We all know what happens in January. We make unrealistic goals for the year, most of which go the way of the dodo by March 1. Judging by the exponential increase in the number of new people at my gym, this tradition is in full swing. I’ve been guilty of this in the...

I mentioned in my last post that I try and keep an open mind. I don’t live a typical life by many standards. It’s neither better nor worse than anyone else’s life so I’m very much a proponent of live and let live as long as no one is getting harmed. One of the things...