Wilson Writes

January has generally been a good month for my writing life, but this year it’s been rough. I usually get pieces accepted during the month of January, but it’s come and gone with the word “NO”. At the Highlights writing conference, one of the speakers mentioned the “Rule of 12,” meaning if you send 12 [...]

An awesome friend sent me a “quote for the day” in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. When I read it, I instantly connected it with my writing life. “We must accept infinite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr. So much of my life is the reality of rejection [...]

I got out of bed at 6 a.m. and took a walk. I have resolved (along with many others, I’m sure) to get more exercise in the coming year. The only problem with this early morning walk was that it was so incredibly cold this morning. I started out in the thirty degree fog, briefly [...]

It would be an understatement to say that we were pampered during the workshop. Here is a picture of my private cabin: The inside: and the view out my front window: And to say that I wrote “a lot” would also be an understatement. Yesterday, at 1:00, it was time to load up the van [...]