When I was in the deepest struggle with my novel, Qualities of Light, I took a one-day workshop from author Alison McGhee. Alison has won aw...

My ideal reader is a confused teenage girl; she feels like an outcast because her best friend just moved to Montana and nobody understands h...

A reader wrote: "I'm sure you hear this often--I'm stuck! I am great at first drafts, in fact I'm submerged in them. They n...

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 ...