Advent is more than the season before Christmas. It is a time of preparation. This post is my challenge to the Muffin community to shape D...

Kimberly Bella is a writer and an entrepreneur currently working on launching a proofreading business, Final Steps Proofreading. She is in ...

Today, we are excited to interview one of the instructors from Odyssey Writing Workshop: author Barbara Ashford.  The Odyssey Writing Worksh...

Congratulations to Carrie Jade Williams and Shining Armour  and all the winners of our 2020 Quarter 4 Creative Non-Fiction Essay Contest! ...

When I was starting out as a freelance writer, one of my first goals was to produce a few solid clips that I could then use when pitching ...

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil an...

"If you build it, he will come." That famous line from the movie Field of Dreams is one that just about everyone knows, baseball ...

My parents were both engaging storytellers.  But while they loved to gab on and on in great detail about their lives before us kids came alo...

Today we are excited to announce a reader review event featuring the book CC's Road Home by Leah B. Eskine. Read the reviews of this ca...

Winner of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s 2016 short prose contest for developing writers and WOW! Women on Writing’s 2018 Essay Contest, Su...

I will begin by apologizing. I’m sorry. It’s not the first apology--when it comes to my soon-to-be book--and I know it won’t be my last.  I ...

It doesn’t matter if you are a fiction or nonfiction writer. When you have finished your manuscript, you almost always have a file of mater...

I absolutely love this time of year. Here in Wisconsin, the leaves have mostly left the trees  and every step you take you'll hear a cru...