Last summer I discovered a wonderful book of essays on writing: A Syllable of Water: Twenty Writers of Faith Reflect…
My husband can juggle. Literally—he can keep 3-4 balls in the air for quite a while. One Christmas I gave…
The folks at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) encourage participants to write 50,000 during the month of November every year.…
Don’t let my title overwhelm you… I’m really not going to WRITE about all of those things today, but I…
As I mentioned in my post back on December 26, “Call for Names,” I’m working on a short story for…
This is my third and final post about John Gardner’s book, On Becoming a Novelist. If you missed the first…
Whaaaaat? No Writing on Wednesday post? Well I was going to write about the next section in On Becoming a…
Somehow I seem to keep finding treasures from the past—not the distant past, but still, books I “happen” upon that…
I love November. But this year, I’m kind of grumpy. I know you’re thinking, “What does she have to be…
About three years ago I did a post about Augusten Burroughs’ memoir, Dry: “Why Does Sobriety Have to Come With…