Five weekends each year, I travel from my home in Connecticut to Minnesota, to teach book-writing structure at the Loft Literary Center in M...

Writing practice is like walking a path and not knowing exactly where you're going, but enjoying the journey. To paraphrase my yoga tea...

I teach weekly writing classes for book writers at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester County near New York City. The beg...

A couple of years ago, I dreamed up a book cover for my novel. I spent an hour with some colored pencils and nice paper, drew and wrote and ...

Memoirs--sometimes they feel to us writers like we're talking to ourselves, not seeing the forest for the trees. But isn't that wha...

I finished a big freelance editing project today so I treated myself to a bowl of popcorn, a movie, and a good read: the altogether quirky M...

Today in my class at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester Co., NY,we talked about moving from a writer-centric viewpoint to ...

I just got the big packet every writer waits for--edited pages of my soon-to-be released novel, Qualities of Light. My super-duper editor, K...

Adele Annesi, author of Writing Lynx, a wonderful resource for writing sites, wrote me: "Of the many writing-related blogs, [yours] is ...

Island life is great. I'm at the Coffee Plantation in Key West, Florida, relaxing in 80-degree island breezes, enjoying a day off after...