A coaching client with a great story to tell is working on her memoir. She asked a very good question about her book's container. It s...

When I first came across Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, I loved her morning pages but was stymied by Artist Dates. Cameron reco...

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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. ...