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Here’s the blog I wrote for Linked In … Children’s Book About Hurricane Katrina to Be Released on 10th Anniversary of Storm Read more →

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”  – Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Burns Cryptozoology The search for animals whose existence has not been proven due to the lack of evidence. The animals cryptozoologists  study are often referred to as cryptids. Bigfoot or the Chupacabra (a creature that attacks and drinks the blood of livestock,… Read more →

“No one sees the world exactly like you, and no one can articulate it in quite the same way.” – Sean Platt, 10 Ways to Avoid Writing Insecurity I made a terrible mistake the other day… I let my sister-in-law read my latest story out loud. With every page she read, I cringed. The story, which was weeks away from… Read more →

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  –Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Some day. That’s the day when all writers decide to start working on their “best seller.” The problem is “some day” never comes because of other obligations or because it becomes a lost dream. Let’s be completely honest. If… Read more →

“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.” – Tom Clancy Drew Brees said it. The New Orleans Saints made it their cry in the Superbowl. Writers need to claim this… Read more →

“Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all.” – Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems My hero was drowning. And all I could do was just stare … Have you ever felt desperate? I mean REAL desperate. Not desperate to find disposable diapers at midnight when you realized you just used the last… Read more →

“I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” James Michener Is it Hard to Be a Good Writer? Of course not. Here are ten suggestions to become a good writer: Write a lot. Keep writing until you get really, really good at it. And when you feel you can’t write anymore, write some more. Be open to a lot… Read more →

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”  Anais Nin The “best” type of writing is hard to come by. This type of writing doesn’t deter your attention with too many details, but does cause you to think very hard. Its simplicity forces you to ponder the… Read more →

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”   John Henrik Clarke Recently, I noticed a commenter on another writer’s blog that said one should always write for himself. I sat for a moment trying to figure out if I agreed with this commenter or not. Suddenly, the following questions… Read more →

By Kelsey Megilligan 03/06/2015 As a twenty-something year old and a recent college graduate, one of the toughest battles I face professionally is the Social Media struggle (and let me tell you the struggle is real!). As millennials, we grew up in a world where we were constantly connected through technology. Our social interactions were consumed with AIM chats, text messages… Read more →