Like boards on a fence, sentences tie together thoughts. But too tied up, they lead to blocked creativity. Enter linkage, a technique that b...

I'm moving to a new home and office this month, so I'm cleaning out forgotten closets and cupboards and files. I found a large jar ...

My summer session writing class is climbing mountains! They're working on chapter one of their books--perhaps the hardest chapter to wr...

Michelle Goodman is the author of two really good books, helpful to writers and anyone seeking a creative life. First, she quit the 9 to 5 a...

A memoirist in my writing workshop was refining a passage in her story about the effect of her father's early death on the family. She w...

Dorothy Allison is the author of Bastard Out of Carolina and many other novels and short stories. Unusual in someone who has had a very dra...

Years ago, I read Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg and got the idea of self-assignments, based on writing prompts or seed ideas. T...

I've just spent a few intense days reading the galleys for my upcoming novel, Qualities of Light, which will be published this summer. ...

Do you pursue more than one art form? How does it help your writing? Are you toggling between the arts to good effect? Most days, I write. B...

Striving to get more voice, more emotion in your writing? One of my favorite nonfiction writers, Rick Bass, shares an important clue on how ...