Author: Collette

  • What Any Writer Can Learn from Holy Week

    What Any Writer Can Learn from Holy Week

    A Look at the Passion for Writing I was sitting on a plane, yellow highlighter at the ready, when I read one of the most influential book lines of my life. You know the kind: the ones you keep coming back to, the ones whose pages flop right open when settled on a desk. The…

  • Four Biggest Lies We Use to Keep From Writing

    Four Biggest Lies We Use to Keep From Writing

    The Biggest Lies All Writers Believe Note, that’s biggest lies, dear friend. Please don’t think for a moment that this in any way limits the list down to a mere four. If that were the case, we’d have a lot more books. I’m merely honing in on the ones I’ve heard, and muttered, the most.…

  • Welcome, dear friend.

    Welcome, dear friend.

    A word. Any word. Even the word, “word.” Whew…and just like that, all that heart-stopping, white-sick terror of the blank page is gone. They say a lot of things about writing, some of it good, a lot of it junk, and most of it, who am I to say. But one of the good things…