First drafts are my favorite drafts. I love the immersion in the story and the constant internal pressure to write…
Author: Lara Lillibridge
This week’s topic is the road not taken—how choosing a different path might’ve affected our writing. First of all, there’s…
Entering writing contests may seem like a drag—they often have higher than normal reading fees and the chance at a…
I first met Dr. Laurie Jean Cannady at HippoCamp—Hippocampus Magazine’s 2016 writer’s conference. I have to admit that I was…
Bios we wish we had are all about regrets and unfulfilled ambitions. Luckily, I have plenty of both. It turns…
I was first introduced to Dr. Thrity Umrigar’s work last spring when she and I both had the honor of…
I have always been afraid. Whispering thoughts circle my head at night—so many things I’ve done, words I’ve said that…
I sat in my very first writer’s workshop the week after I left my soon-to-be-ex-husband. I was going to chase…
I’m an extroverted introvert—or what I like to call a “social introvert.” I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs test several times, and…
My mother always told me that I was creative, by which I think she meant peculiar. I couldn’t draw, paint,…