Merry Christmas!
All the best this holiday season.

After all the turkey, the presents, and the socializing we will be here waiting for you.
This is a fun addition to any journal. No, it isn’t actually a ten word poem. It involves using ten random words with no apparent commonality within a poem, preferably one for each line. This technique can be adjusted to include a theme or be perfectly unexpected. I prefer the unexpected. I have provided ten…
April Shower Prompts Here are a week’s worth of prompts for contemplating what April brings: Day One: April showers bring may flowers… Day Two: Write what you love about rainy days. Day Three: Write about your first pair of rubber boots. Day Four: Do you remember the first time you walked in the rain? Day…
Beth Gutcheon, author of Gossip, is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous novels: The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage and Good-bye and Amen. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives…
“Why would anyone ever want to leave their comfort zone? That’s the best place to be.” A former coworker said that to me after I placed Neale Donald Walsch‘s quote on my desk: “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” For many years beforehand, I held the same belief as her. I was…
A couple of years ago, I signed up for an improvisational theatre class. At the time, I spoke very quickly, fumbled over words, and often experienced deer-in-the-headlight moments. I figured improv would help me think more quickly on my feet and also help bring the spontaneity back into my life. The spontaneity that had been…
November is just around the corner. In the writers world, that means NaNoWriMo. Yep, National Novel Writing Month, when a bunch of crazy writers decide this is the month they are going to write the novel that has been languishing about in their brains or hard drives. This is the month that writers take on…