The week I got my first copy of my new novel, Qualities of Light, I was like a raft floating in serene blue water. It had happened at last. ...

Sarah Tieck, a fellow instructor at the Loft Literary Center, emailed me with a great question about writing notebooks. I've heard the s...

What's the path of least resistence, when it comes to writing and publishing a book? I've found you need three things: persisten...

Sometimes we have to get small to get big, with our books. But it can also feel like a sidetrack away from the "important" writing...

This week my long-awaited (to me, at least) novel will be published. I began writing it nine years ago while vacationing at a lakeside cabin...

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...

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...