About a month ago, a critique partner (CP) suggested I come to the Writing Workshop of Chicago this year. At first I thought, "Go to Chicago? No way!" because I'm a mom, and moms always make excuses not to do things for themselves. I didn't want to leave the kids. I didn't think I could afford it. This and that, and everything. Everything is a good excuse not to take do something for yourself. Then, my husband convinced me to do it, and I am so glad he did! We decided to turn

I haven't been keeping up with my 65 Days of Summer Writing Challenge lately. It's been three weeks since I started, and for the past week, I've been only managing to get to a writing prompt every other day, instead of every single day. This is due to a lot of different reasons. 1) I've been writing a LOT on my new novel idea. It's still in the very early first draft stages, so it really looks more like a hot mess than a well structured story, but I'm excited for it. Exciteme