by Kathy Nickerson | Oct 9, 2020 | family, Marriage, mercy, writing
I am about to launch another book into the world, and I promise you it is like sending your child off to his first day of school. This book was especially fun, because I never expected to write it. I thought The Glory Circle Sisters had told their final story a...
by Kathy Nickerson | May 12, 2020 | family, mercy, work, writing
I’ve been trying to write this blog post all morning, but four baby squirrels are playing tag outside my window. I had to watch them. Then I had to research squirrel family interactions. Afterwards, I had to plot out a few points for the children’s book I...
by Kathy Nickerson | Apr 3, 2020 | Featured Work, Friendship, happy endings, mercy, writing
Judy C. Harvey is the debut author of Angel Wings, a story of hope and friendship in a new season of life. She is also my First and Forever friend. (She shows up in all my novels. Especially in that line from The Marvel House.) We have been friends since before we...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 13, 2018 | writing
Welcome to the Wednesday Writer. Let’s talk flash! Definitions of flash fiction vary, but basically, this is a short story of less than 1000 words. Sometimes as short as 100 words. It is a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. Flash follows the same...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jun 6, 2018 | writing
Welcome to this edition of Wednesday Writer. If you have been following this series, you know we’ve talked about starting small as a writer and learning the craft through books, magazines, courses, conferences, critique groups, and mentors. Today,...
by Kathy Nickerson | May 30, 2018 | mercy, writing
Hello from the Wednesday Writer. Three hundred words. That is the challenge I set when I decided to actually write one of the stories in my head. If I wrote five days a week, I could have a rough draft done in less than a year. Every morning, I sat at my desk...
