Author and creator Matthew Wayne Selznick shares the story of the long road from conception to publication of his novel Light of the Outsider.

Solitude is an important part of building a healthy, balanced creative writing life. Find out why you must take alone time despite how hard it can be, and read how I learned that lesson.

Introducing 90 Days To You, an exercise to help synchronize your vision of yourself with reality. The result: improved self-awareness, stronger empathy, and ultimately, better writing!

Yeah, so it's about two minutes to two, been a long day, good day... and I have one more. This is how I do it... no blogs forever, then, when it's really worth it, you might get two, three in the course of twenty four. Maybe sometime soon I'll be more prolific. Now... well. Here we go. It's late, and I'm tired, but here we go. Long time ago, I was pining for some closure with a situation, a relationship, a time that didn't go so well. It was (another) one of those things where I gave as much as I could, where I dedicated all I had to someone who just wasn't ready, then, to take it. I always wondered why things ended up the way they did. I always wondered what I did to deserve it. I always wondered if I would have gone right back and done it again. I wondered if anything came of it. Found out, today, for sure, that I did something right. Understand that I'm not easy with my past. I have history that walks in front of me when I close my eyes, before I go to sleep, and at those moments…