Dearest Kayelle. You are an inspiration to me and to all of us who have had the good luck to encounter you in our writing lives. I consider you the perfect example of discipline and its rewards. The volume of your work, and the quality of the stories you tell, speak most eloquently of your dedication to your creative vision and to the practice of producing fine fiction in every book you write. What could be a better demonstration of the efficacy of discipline than that. Love and Blessings. Alice

Yes, Janet, writing every day is the ideal if you can manage it. The secret to developing what I think of as a “positve addiction” to the practice, until a day without writing leaves us feeling restless, out of sorts and incomplete. Short of that, we must do as much as we can as often as we can. Nora Roberts once advised me to write everywhere, no matter what else might be going on, to find a corner and write whatever I could manage to get down in the notebook I must carry with me at all times. That advice carried me through a particularly chaotic period of my career and, obviously, it has worked like a charm for Nora herself. It is certainly nice to have “a room of one’s own” as Virginia Woolf described, but, when and if we lack access to that, an imagination of our own, plus a pen and a page to press its point upon, can definitely suffice. All we have to do is relax some of our situational needs and Keep on Writing Whatever May Occur. Love and Blessings. Alice

Hi Cathy. I am so glad that you finally have the time you have so long longed for to write your heart out every writing day. You have worked hard to get here, and you well deserve every glorious minute. I am overjoyed to hear you have a writing place as well. I send my blessings upon every inch and corner and honor the good work I have no doubt you will do there. May the muse be ever with you. Love. Alice