Two years ago, my bestie and I started drafting our first co-written contemporary romance novel, Better Than Fate, under the penname Christine Mayfaire. It took a long time for us to whip it into shape, but we’re FINALLY publishing it a chapter at a time on Medium as part of…

The realities of living tiny on 10 distressed acres in the country are starting to set in. — In December I wrote about wanting to change my life. In mid-March my partner and I started talking about making a drastic change to make that happen — moving to the property I grew up on in north Idaho, ten acres of land in a distressed state with a crumbling…

I woke up about six weeks ago and realized I couldn’t keep doing things the way I was doing them or it would kill me. — Not literally, obviously. I could go on like this, miserable and stagnant, indefinitely. I wouldn’t call that living but it’s also not death. Is being alive really enough to be called the opposite of death? Is it the not-death? …

A 100 word micro-fiction story.

Pretty much every day of the last forsaken year I’ve woken up thinking “I want to write today.” This isn’t a new thing. That little voice started whispering in my ear around age 10, when a teacher forced me to write down my thoughts and then told me they were…

I hate writing on a computer. I do it, of course, sit down behind that glowing screen at the blank white page and stare at the cursor until I muster the courage to begin. I write for a living, so I know that the cursor is not always my friend…