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All Creative Types Need My Husband

Ashley M. Hill - October 5, 2012

I come from creative stock. Every side of the family — from the ones I share genetics with and the ones claimed through love — has crafters and artists and a handful of writers. And they’re all supportive. They think its cool that I can make half-an-income writing and raising the child. They look forward […]

Family Ties

Jessi Levine - October 4, 2012

Having someone who supports you with your writing is perhaps one of the biggest motivators to keep going, story after story and page after page. A support group does wonders for this, but when the support follows you back home, that makes all the difference. I have been very lucky to find that support at […]

The Boxing Kangaroo and the Professor

Kevin Wohler - October 4, 2012

There’s an old story that a boxing kangaroo is only good until it gets punched. After that, they don’t want to fight anymore. (Don’t ask me where I heard it. My head is filled with useless trivia like that.) The same thing happened to me. Kind of. All my life, I’ve been lucky. When I […]

If You’re Really My Friend, You’ll Cook Me Dinner During NaNo

Eliza Jaquays - October 2, 2012

I’ve known since I was little that I wanted to be a writer, and my parents have had time to come to terms with it. It helps that I grew up in an artistic household. My dad went from freelance artist to working for TSR to making video game art and then back to freelance […]

A World of Support

Sara Lundberg - October 2, 2012

I have always been incredibly fortunate when it has come to friends, family, and significant others and my writing. I have never once run into someone who said I couldn’t do it. I’m not sure my family, my Mom especially, ever really understood my drive to write, but they’ve always encouraged me. We’re a family […]