It's deep winter here in northern New England, and I'm thinking about summer--quelle surprise!  As the furnace tries to warm my cold...

I received an eloquent email from a reader in New York, who had some thoughts on my recent post on memory and truth.  I am sharing it in its...

Create yourself a collage party tonight or tomorrow--and envision your 2011 creatively!  Go to the search box on this blog and type in ...

There are some important signs of burn-out that writers need to attend to.  An overactive Inner Critic.  A feeling of the blues about one...

This week's exercise is to do something wonderful for a beloved writer in your life.  Maybe yourself!  Here's a short list of my f...

Judy, a reader from Minnesota, sent me a very good question about her manuscript: "I took your class this summer on 'how to write ...

A reader from Virginia wrote me:  "I’m either writing a very boring memoir which is filled with the ME in memoir, or I’m writing some s...

The relationship of writer with book-in-progress can be likened to a marriage as opposed to a date.  Poems, articles, columns, and short sto...

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate this week.  In honor of the holiday, when maybe we all can get a tiny bit more leisure time...

Where I live in northern New England, it's getting toward winter.  The trees have lost most of their leaves, and it got so chilly last n...