Paula Chapman

Dedicated to my first best friend, my dear cousin Angelo DeNicola, who I recently found on Facebook after too long! Sometimes life is...

The love of a good dog never dies. We’d just moved to a little town called Baldwinsville, on the Seneca River in central New York State,...

A night alone gave way to introspection about my writing. While I stepped away from the laptop to work my evening job, then return home,...

Do you remember writing that dreaded, “What I Did This Summer” essay in September upon returning to school? I do. As a child, I never had...

This year has been scary. I don't need to remind everyone that we've had quite a few situations this year requiring special attention to...

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The COVID-19 shutdown has been in full swing for two months now. Some things have become second nature and some, even more challenging as...

We are in week four of the pandemic social distancing, what some call the "quarantine". The time we wished for with our families now is...

So the world is doing what the occasional good writer attempts: to distance socially. Now, we are asked to distance socially and in some...

So while many are celebrating or stressing March Madness in college basketball, I am spending part of my March on Pitch Madness. What is...

For this week, I am directing you to my blog entry on CritiqueMatch.com Blog.critiquematch.com

I'd like to start a conversation this week concerning novel and query letter writing. If you are working on a non-fiction piece, you,...

We continue with the discussion on time management this week. In this post I offer more recommendations for the writer (or really anyone)...

This is the second in a series of entries wherein I discuss organization. This week, screenshots. I discovered screenshots a couple of...

So I know too many writers who make excuses. There! I've said it! People have told me they are in awe of how I find time to write and how...

If you think inspiration comes only from positive sources, think again! My English high school teacher in junior year was kind of an ass....

Recently I made a conscious decision to re-focus on what matters. Well, I made a conscious decision years ago to focus on my kids, but...