Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

Patience. If you’re like me, you need it, want it, and yet find it so hard to maintain.
Here’s a great post by author, teacher, mentor Kristine Kathryn Rusch about writers and patience. When you’re done with this essay, go back and read all the other ones in her Freelancer’s Guide to Survival. [...]

Just got in from our short backpacking trip. Massive head cold. Sore throat, possible fever, head full of more liquid than I knew the head could hold.
Spending this one hotel day catching up on over 200 e-mails, doing laundry, resupplying. Leaving in the morning for our longer backpacking excursion in the Wind [...]

Hi! You thought I was in the wilderness, didn’t you? I’m in between wildernesses at the moment–we’re hiking and driving our way northward so it’s not just endless days in the car. But we’ve finally passed into Wyoming, where bigger wilderness awaits.
Anyway. Wanted to take a moment to give you all [...]

One of the sweetest notes I’ve ever gotten from a boy was in fifth grade, when Tony T. wrote: “You would make a great author. You’re a great student too. You get your work done too.”
And though of course I love the part about how I would make a great author, it’s [...]

I do this thing, and I wondered if anyone else does this thing, or if it would be useful to you to consider it for your own purposes.
It started a few years ago when I was sitting here one summer, sweltering in the Arizona heat, and I happened to read an article about backpacking in [...]