• Where in the World is Marcie Writing? A Getaway

      You know my favorite place to write? In a quiet hotel room. Alone. It rarely happens, but when it does, I can suck the life out of a few hours. Thanks to my mom watching the kids, I snuck away out of town with my husband. He had…

  • Where in the World is Marcie Writing? The Library

      I have this novel that’s been pretty much done for several months. But the climax of the story was just terrible. I knew it would require some major rewriting and some rewriting of early parts to make it all come together. But I needed some big chunks of…

  • Where in the World is Marcie Writing? Cups

    One of my favorite places to write is CUPS, a neighborhood coffee shop. They have the best homemade havarti pimento cheese and herbal ice tea.   My critique group meets here once a month on busy Saturday mornings, but I prefer to go in the late afternoon when the…

  • Where in the World is Marcie Writing? Hollins

    You are probably sick of hearing me wax poetically about Hollins this week. But it’s been, and continues to be, such a pivotal place in my life. I feel so lucky to live so close and to be able to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves there.…

  • Where In the World is Marcie Writing? Back Porch

    Though I’ve been writing in a variety of places this summer, one of my favorite places to write is one that’s new and close. We recently redecorated our back porch. I’ve been spending evenings out here listening to it rain (it’s rained a LOT this summer), reading, and writing…

  • Where in the World is Marcie Writing? Railroad Tracks

    I was a huge fan of the game of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” It was one of the first computer games I ever played as a kid and we played it on my grandfather’s computer. If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, you know that…