Little Cottage in the Northwoods

Setting goals is important, but setting the right goal is even more important. Don’t pick a goal simply because someone else says it works, because it might work for them and not for you. Find out why it worked for them and ask yourself some questions to see if it will work for you.
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A poem is a reflection one’s soul. Or so I’ve heard.
I wrote my first poem when I was fifteen. It’s called Snow, and I still like it a lot, even though my writing has progressed since then.
At the library, I found an advertisement for the “Sparrowgrass” poetry contest (anybody know if this is still [...]

All writers have goals–some slightly unattainable, others more realistic. I have several small goals that are easily achieved, but my biggest goal is slightly unattainable.
I want to be published in Highlights for Children magazine. I send in numerous submissions during the year; I enter their annual [...]

I used to think writer’s block was a myth. Once when a friend and I were writing a story together. She kept telling me she had writer’s block, and I’m thinking how? I’ve got so many ideas, and words just oozing out of me. I can’t type [...]

Does anybody out there have as much trouble as I do with the middle of the novel? That’s the point where I start pulling out my hair. I end up putting the novel aside, and start writing the beginning and the end of another one. This is [...]