“Just as it’s a chance for teams to regroup, strategize, and plan for the next step, the writing process, regardless of the stage, is a crucial period for writers to refine their skills, experiment with new ideas, and lay the foundation for their future work.”

Perfect, Wendy.

Read my essay in Reckon Review about Teddy (kinda) and then GO BUY MY BOOK!

Buy here: books2read.com/thepikeboys

I used to be scared of dogs… until I met my little buddy, Teddy.

I wrote an essay about how our bond helped me get over my fears, and approach my writing career.

'Dreams couldn’t be crushed if never exposed to the weight of reality.'

We have a new essay from Danny Cherry Jr. / deecherrywriter.bsky.social up today! Check it out: reckonreview.com/once-more-to-t…

He wouldn’t leave it alone. Told everyone he saw he could take me. Easy. I didn’t want to show him up. Let him think he could still swim. What’s the harm, you know? But he wouldn’t let up. Started to call me scared. Put a hundred dollars on it.

Lisa Thornton Reckon Review

ICYMI and in honor of #NFLDraft day, my craft essay on writing and football! #GoHawks 🏈✍🏾🏈

“I believed that if I wasn’t continuously writing, I couldn’t rightfully consider myself a genuine writer—my dry spells felt like a betrayal of my identity.”

I can relate to this so much! Read Wendy Newbury wonderful craft essay in Reckon Review !! 👏🏻👏🏻🧡

In desperation to fill blank spaces, I learned the off-season is part of the journey and teaches one to stay the course.

Love this lens! Check out Wendy Newbury craft essay in Reckon Review!

“What becomes of football fanatics when the stadium lights go out? When my writing stalled initially, I asked myself the same question.” ⁦Wendy Newbury⁩ ⁦Reckon Review⁩ reckonreview.com/the-off-season…

'In desperation to fill blank spaces, I learned the off-season is part of the journey and teaches one to stay the course'

Another football fan! & lessons for what we do behind the scenes when we're not actively writing.

Wendy Newbury up at Reckon Review 🏈🏈🏈

My craft essay through the lens of my very unhealthy obsession with football! Thank you to Reckon Review and the ever incredible Charlotte Hamrick⚜️⚜️⚜️!

New Wind & Root today!
Huge thanks to brilliant guest columnist Wendy Newbury (Wendy Newbury ) and our incredible Features Editor Charlotte Hamrick! (@CharlotteHam504 )
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I mean. Lisa Thornton in Reckon Review. Just. Wow. “I’d hear him coming, the whir of that engine and he’d be pointing his finger at me with a smoke in the corner of his mouth.” WOW

“I got it pretty good now. My girl stayed. She might not have been all those girls he had, but she stayed.”

Oh man, you’ve crushed it here Lisa. And that ending, shit. So damn good.

Honored to be in Reckon Review today with new fiction! Read The Race here ⬇️

reckonreview.com/the-race/

New fiction today from Lisa Thornton
Check it out:
reckonreview.com/the-race/

My stepdad had forced us to give away our cat when he moved in. He was allergic, he explained. It was funny how my stepdad was allergic to all parts of my mom’s former life, including me.

A story of great cruelty and great compassion, so good. Coleman Bigelow in Reckon Review

“At thirteen, I’d had enough of you passing out in bathrooms and your collection of expired sobriety chips. I said I wouldn’t go to your house for Christmas that year even though it was your turn to have me.”

Searingly honest and painful. So well done.

It's rainy here in Western North Carolina. Seems like the perfect day to stay in with some good reads and this - our first ever Reckon Spotify playlist - thanks to C.W. Blackwell - be sure to check out his essay 'Strike a Minor Chord' on our website.
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