Category: Writing

• Thanks a lot, 2019.

  2019 was a pretty fantastic year, personally. For a lot of people 2019 was fraught with hardship and drama. My life was far from drama-free, but, overall, the good outweighed the bad. My brother and his came to visit for the first time, and it was brilliant! I flew to Denver to visit my BFF.…

  Mindy Carlson

  January 2, 2020

  Kids, Writing

  agents, querying, writing

• Writing Retreats in Order to Advance

  

  Somehow fall has happened. I have no idea what happened to September. Well, that’s not strictly true. I spent it sending my kids back to school where others could try to teach them something while I traveled. Before you call me a bad parent, I was traveling for mostly professional reasons. I actually went to…

  Mindy Carlson

  October 13, 2019

  Writing

  #amwriting, Author Accelerator, inside-outline, Jennie Nash, writing

• I’m in the Washington freakin’ Post!!

  Today I reached a major milestone. Something I wrote has been published in the Washington Post. It was a short piece. 100 words or less defining motherhood. Out of who knows how many submissions mine and nine others were selected to run in the Style section under the On Parenting heading. You can read it…

  Mindy Carlson

  May 9, 2019

  Writing