Honoring your art monster

I assume that by reading this, you’ve reached some level of recognition or…

5 Memoir Writing Rules That May Be Holding You Back — and How to Move Beyond Them

1. Only people who…

What We Talk About When We Talk About a Practice

Six Keys to a Lifelong Practice From Haruki Murakami

How Do I Become a Writer?

Become the Writer You Always Wanted to Be in These Easy Steps…Just Kidding. But here are a bunch of suggestions.

What’s the best way to become a writer? It’s a question haunting message boards across the internet. Some people offer answers, and there are…

The Myth of the Lone Author

When I walked into my small MFA writing workshop for the first time, I was terrified of working with people…

Inside the Writing Practice

– (noun) the activity or work of writing books, poems, stories, etc.

Describing Place — A Short Lesson

Describing place is a great entry point for enhancing description, because it represents that…

People Can’t Read What You Do Not Write

You’ve turned in a little later than you’d planned. You need to get to sleep and wake up…

Rattlesnakes, Twitter, and You: An Amateur’s Guide to Social Media