I'm excited to announce that I recently started a Substack newsletter. It's called Still Here: A Landing Place for Long-term Cancer Survivors. As a 50-plus-year survivor of Stage IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma, I wanted to create a community for others who have made it through cancer and cancer treatment and come out the other side. In my bi-weekly posts, I plan to explore the myriad of ways a history of cancer can impact a person's life, including issues with body image and self-esteem, difficulty...

We writers spend a lot of time in our heads. We sit hunched over our keyboards, dreaming up plots and characters, themes and worlds. This is as it should be. But sometimes, we need to get out of our heads and into our bodies, especially when we're creating our fictional settings. Setting is the story element that grounds our characters - and our readers - in the physical world. So in order to make our settings come alive, we need to experience them with our bodies as well as our imaginations....

Feeling Fate by Joni Senses I'm currently writing a memor, so I've been doing a lot of reading in the genre lately. Somehow, though, I...