A couple of months ago, I purged myself of most of the way, way, WAY too many blogs I'd been following. The number of posts I received were overwhelming and I felt my own precious writing time being sucked away as I tried to do justice to the writing of others. In the end, I …
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My area of the country has been experiencing the most depressing heat wave and drought. And the hot dry weather has been affecting my creativity. I feel tired and lethargic and uninspired. Drought or no, this happens to every writer, I know. But I can't afford to let myself settle into writing inactivity. "Drought begets …
Only once have I used my actual nighttime dreams as an inspiration for my writing. A few years ago we adopted a border collie/Australian shepherd mix puppy that we named Took. He was a mischievous, fuzzy little guy with an oddly curled tail and a number of curious habits. Not only did Took watch television …
Because of our freakishly warm Illinois weather this spring, I’ve already had to get out and yank a few pernicious weeds from around my faithful perennials. The spring activities of clearing out the winter debris, planting, and weeding (not to mention nursing my aching gardening muscles that haven’t been used in six-or-so months) never fail …
Today, while watching spring training baseball (featuring my team—those perennial non-World Series-winning baby bears), a player named Welington Castillo stepped up to bat. What a really great name, I thought. Cool, interesting, and—somehow—it made me curious about him. That's precisely the kind of name I want for the main character of the story I'm currently …
Leanne Pankuch 