8220;You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. This was a famous phrase from a work by Adrienne Rich that resonated with me through my later college years as I pursued my writing courses. I think this is the key to really being a writer, to put your mindset in the place where creativity can come from the places that are true to you.

8230;where thoughts and words prevail. But it got me thinking about what type of frame of mind we are in when we read specific books. This was my favorite class. The opportunity to write in my genre was so r.

The Writing Lane by Writer Janice Lane Palko. My fourth novel, Most Highly Favored Daughter, a romantic suspense, is now available and is the first in my Sanctified Suspense line of novels. Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Monday, March 4, 2013. For those of you who have stuck around, waiting for a new post, thank you. Let us know what you think! .

Volunteering at a DV shelter, watching the changes and choices its residents go through. Monitoring my own changes and choices because of them. Tuesday, June 26, 2012. But to me she never acted like she was afraid of anything. My mother had confidence and I believe that confidence is just another form of courage.