How recently have you cracked open your heart? One of my favorite--and riskiest--writing classes to teach is called "Writing through ...

It's a rainy Saturday and I'm teaching at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Outside, trees are in full leaf, lilacs are bloo...

Sunset always happens. The day ends. So does your book, essay, poem, story. Eventually you have to tie all the loose bits into reasonabl...

This week I made soup, because the weather turned unexpectedly cold. It was hot, 89 degrees, in the beginning of the week, but it hit 31 by...

A well- structured book is like a clear trail. The reader can follow it. So can the writer. But many writers get bogged down during the ...

This week I had my small moment in the sun. A thrill for any writer, I was invited for an interview on WNPR about my new novel, Qualities ...

Do you want to see your name (or your book's title) in lights someday? You may need to get a platform. What the heck is a platform? ...

I've been included this summer in an illustrious line-up of writing teachers, and we're all going to be offering specialized writing...

Painters carefully choose what to include, what to edit out. I learned this when I studied still life. You may see ten things but you focus ...

Find out why writers have called it "the best writing workshop I've ever attended!" Fee: $146 for 2 information-packed days. ...