I really dislike storyboards. They tell me what I don't want to know--where I have too much or too little, where I've written on tr...

I'll be at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis next weekend, December 4-5, teaching my two-day book-structuring workshop. Please jo...

Today I had plenty of creative energy, so I decided to tackle a big project: storyboarding my new novel. It's the sequel to Qualities ...

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...

Please join me!

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...