
A novel year aka the joy and pain of writing
This time last year, this is what I thought: 2017 going to be the year. It was going to be The Year of the Novel,

This time last year, this is what I thought: 2017 going to be the year. It was going to be The Year of the Novel,

I seem to be visiting the past with my reading lately. Do you ever find that you read according to a theme or genre for

My lovely kindred spirit friend Maureen Eppen featured me on her Shelf Aware series this week. Here’s a snippet, but you’ll have to visit Maureen’s

[bctt tweet=”“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” username=”MoniqueMulligan”] Do words call

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Every night, I curl up in bed with my book of

I’m currently reading Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Parent and Lead. She has this to say

Once upon a time, a tiny chatterbox girl loved to make her voice heard. She talked and talked and talked until her tired mother said,

Some of you may know that I worked as a journalist and news editor for about six years (2006-2011). During that time, I wrote a

By Lynette Washington [bctt tweet=”The short story is a form that is vulnerable to fashion.” username=”MoniqueMulligan”] Not in the way that a dab is; more

The creation of a book is often likened to the birth of a baby – it’s a simile that works well, because really, that’s exactly