This year I’m starting the year right by highlighting some of the best writing blogs on the web. I love to visit blogs about writing for inspiration, encouragement and motivation, and it’s with those three qualities…

Note: This is a post by Stacy Claflin, a mother by day and an author by, well, very early in the morning! She’s currently penning the The Transformed Series. Connect with Stacy at her…

This is a post by Shanan Haislip. Shanan is a full-time business writer, an essayist, and webmaster at The Procrastiwriter, a blog about ways to fit writing in around a full-time…

Have you ever wanted to start a project and couldn’t? Have you ever waited in vain for inspiration to strike and it didn’t? Have you ever looked at the clock to…

If you’re waiting for the universe to provide for you, I’ve got a feeling you’re going to wait a long time. If you know what you want then my advice…

If you’re a writer (or any kind of artist), the odds are you’ve struggled with doubt and I bet there have been days when it has been downright overwhelming, perhaps even enough to…

Today I am happy to announce the winner of the “Happy Every Day” Caption on an Image Contest, Jessica Peterson. Jessica is an exciting young artist who aspires to make…

Last week Jeff Goins (the dude who wrote the foreword for my book), posted something deceptively simple and quite thought provoking, “Why I Write”. In his post he talked about, you guessed it – Why…

As writers, we are by our very nature, critical thinkers, but for some reason we don’t think too much about the ramifications of our own counterintuitive self-talk. All too often we…

Thank you to everyone who participated in the “Happy Every Day” book description contest. The winners have been chosen. Before I get to the winners I want to remind you that…