My 2016 New Year’s Resolutions

  I couldn’t be more excited for the year ahead. I know that there’s still room to grow no matter how old I get. Resolutions are a terrific way of giving myself an extra nudge in the right direction so I wrote down seven that I plan on following through with. 1. My first New […]

Desiree Holt

The desire to write has been with me since I was old enough to read, but life and obligations got in my way until 2004. It didn’t stop my brain from creating, however, so by the time I sat down at my computers I had a file folder full of ideas. The process of taking […]

Valerie Stokes

I am aged 80. I find that many of my friends are writing their life stories in order to give a better picture of their backgrounds for their adult children and hopefully their “grandies” to read and help them understand us “fuddy-duddies” and why we are as we are. We all have a story to […]

Anita Vaughn

When I was in my teens I wrote poems that told stories. As a matter of fact, I still have them from all those years ago. Then I started writing because I lived in make-believe in my head how I wished my life would be, but it never turned out that way. So I started […]

Dan Holloway

Because metaphors are the knives that cut the belly of the beast, the hives fermenting honey out of life. Because every night I was alone with just a razor and despair to call my own a hundred strangers placed their pens upon my bones and held me while they made their dreams my home. Because […]

Vondie Curtis-Hall Directing Thriller ‘Residue’ (VARIETY EXCLUSIVE)

Vondie Curtis-Hall has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of Warren Adler’s 2010 dramatic thriller “Residue,” Variety has learned exclusively. Jeffrey D. Erb of Framelight Productions will produce the film with Grey Eagle Films. “Residue” follows a Wall Street firm’s token Jewish lawyer as he finds himself in the middle of a chain […]

Alexis Donkin

Love. I write what I write because of love. I love people and want them to do better. I want them to be better. I know the power of stories because I was raised on them – a child of two ministers. My parents are excellent storytellers. This gift was handed down for generations on […]