In the interest of Stress Awareness Month (April), I de-stressed and paused blogging in consideration of my mental...
S.F. Powell: Sans serif
Stress Health Awareness Month
With this in mind, I'm going extra sans serif—no blogs this month. Go, be serif, de-stress, and indulge in the...
A Low-Cost Writer’s Retreat, Pt. 2
In the previous blog, I discussed planning a personal, local, writer retreat and the care package essentials that go...
Michael Jackson Music: a Crossroad
A tribute to Michael Jackson was part of the lineup at the Capital Jazz Festival earlier this month. And as I sat in...
Bookshelves to Die For Pt. 1
In the interest of Mental Health Awareness Month, I took a break from blogging during the month of May, but I am Sans...
All’s Fair in Love for Books
The COVID pandemic impacted everything on all fronts, so, no surprise I’d been out of the in-person book fair groove a...
Beginning a Novel: Stuck Before Getting Started
“It was a dark and stormy night…” (a tried-and-true opening for sure, and just as oft-played) You’ve fleshed out the...
Get Over the Fear, Dear.
Writers write for the utter joy of it. But loving to write doesn’t equate being entirely comfortable with exposure as...
A Toe-Dipping Approach
You’ve seen this (I know you have), either in movies or in real life: a person approaches the edge of a body of water,...
Playing God
A hidden satisfaction comes with being a fiction author. We are creators of people, creators of worlds, and creators...
The Reappearing Act
I completed my first novel years ago, made a whisper of noise about it—and then disappeared. Was it fear? Sure. Was it...
