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

From Aspiring to Practicing Writer in 2017

“False Hope Syndrome,” some psychologists call it. We make New Year’s resolutions that are beyond our individual means to reach. Maybe they are too ambitious (publish a yet-unwritten book in 2017), or they require others to behave the way we want them to…