by Kathy Nickerson | Apr 20, 2009 | Friendship, writing
Networking is an interesting word. A network ties together a group of computers making this conversation possible in the first place. Insurance companies use networks to decide how they are going to pay various doctors. You get paid better if you are “in...
by Kathy Nickerson | Apr 6, 2009 | writing
Please refrain from throwing the rocks you are holding in your hands. I, too, fantasize about having uninterrupted hours alone in a mountain cabin (like the one pictured here) where I can think, write, rest, and write some more for days on end. But I live in the...
by Kathy Nickerson | Mar 23, 2009 | family, writing
I’m thinking today about my goal to “Write for Publication.” (the name of a class I took once.) I am pursuing that goal. I’m taking classes, going to conferences, studying my craft, sending out queries, and even having a few things published...
by Kathy Nickerson | Mar 20, 2009 | writing
I started writing my first novel more than two decades ago. We were driving by a life-sized Nativity scene, and one of our children said, “I wonder what happened to the shepherds after that?” A little shepherd boy popped immediately into my head, and I was...
by Kathy Nickerson | Mar 18, 2009 | happy endings, writing
When I was fifteen, a boy broke my heart. If this were not my first ever blog post, I would now insert a little, blue link to an entry called Death to Dating. But I’ll spare you my philosophy on that for now. I mourned my loss for an appropriate length of time....
