Thoughts on creativity by Melissa Morrow.
July 8, 2017
Anybody who has been around me for more than five minutes knows that I am a bossy know-it-all. I know (see?) that I’m annoying but I can’t seem to stop forcefully giving advice on any topic of which I am Read more…
May 2, 2017
Here’s the thing about (what I hope) is the final revision: no more procrastinating. No more saying, “Oh, I’ll figure that out later, that thing about time travel,” or, “I’ll go back later and format all of his inner thoughts Read more…
March 26, 2017
A poem I wrote after meeting a long-lost cousin who turned into a great friend.
February 20, 2017
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~E.L. Doctorow If writing the first draft of a novel is like driving Read more…
January 30, 2017
Late in 2010, I finished writing my first novel. It was super religious (as was I, at the time) — pages and pages of Church history and people talking about theology. It was just a “light little mystery” and I Read more…
December 14, 2015
Eight years ago today, I slipped on the ice, fell, and hit my head on a curb. I woke up in the arms of one of the nuns I was living with, who was crying and saying, “Sister, wake up! Read more…
July 24, 2014
Wake up. Fight with Daniel over who gets the last mini-box of Froot Loops. Win because you are the baby. Smirk because he has to eat the Cheerios instead. Watch cartoons with the boys. Laugh until you cry when William Read more…
January 24, 2011
Someone told me recently that the body remembers, even if the mind has forgotten. I remember this day in 2010 with everything I am. It was a morning just like this one when the funeral home wheeled my mom out Read more…
As the Eleventh Doctor said: “We’re all different 
people all through our lives and that’s okay, that’s good. You’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.”
So a longer bio is coming soon. But for now, sometimes I remember the people I used to be:
