Vicki M Taylor

Category: writing

  • Reflections on 2025: Finding Light in the Shadows

    As I sit here on the last day of 2025, watching the Florida sun paint golden streaks across the runway outside my window, I’m struck by how this year demanded more from me than any deployment ever did. Not in courage under fire, but in the quiet resilience required to face each new doctor’s appointment,…

  • From Technical Writer to Fiction Author to Writing Coach: A Journey

    After nearly 20 years crafting technical documentation for enterprise software companies, I closed my laptop on corporate writing. This transition felt both terrifying and exhilarating—like jumping from a perfectly stable airplane with a parachute I’d spent two decades designing but never actually tested. My technical writing career taught me discipline, clarity, and how to explain…

  • Finding Time to Write: Overcoming Your Inner Critic

    Ideas flow like water. Some of us catch them with a cup, others with a sieve. Hey, I like that. I’ll have to write that one down. Anyway, back to discussing finding time to write and sticking to it. A writer friend I know said that we all have a story inside of us. Those…