When I did my book signing last week at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, a friend said, "Check out the marquee. Your name is i...

This past weekend I taught my trio of one-day workshops at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. One of them, the most difficult to teac...

My weekly book-writing classes at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center are wrapping up their six-week fall session this month. We're r...

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Today I am sitting still. I'm visioning, listening, waiting. It's the opposite pace of these last few months, when my novel Qualit...

One of my favorite writing exercises is to list five things I'd never do, or I'd never make a character do, then write a scene imagi...

In a roundabout way, I learned of a new book on creativity: Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod. Then I learned of some fascinating notes on th...

In my novel, Qualities of Light, there's a triangle of love interests. Boy likes girl, girl kind of likes boy, girl falls in love with a...

As someone who loves it when the ducks are lined up, I used to hate unanswered questions. Problems I couldn't solve, dilemmas unresolved...

If you're in the very lucky position to have (1) finished writing your book, and (2) sold your manuscript to a publisher, you'll soo...