When I was in graduate school, one of my teachers suggested a sketchy idea:  Read a favorite published writer and "model" them...

When my first book was contracted by a publisher, I was assigned an editor who also wrote for Men's Health magazine.  This editor, ...

I met Mary Collins in a workshop I taught at Grub Street writing school in Boston a few years ago.  Her writing--and her enthusiasm--...

Choosing vulnerability in your writing. Always being open to learning more.  Embracing the support of a writing community.  Being wil...

Most writers know at least one self-publishing success story.  A famous one, almost an urban legend by now, is the story of Amanda Hock...

I recently watched the movie Argo, which was just released on DVD.  Movies like these I prefer seeing at home, so I can study their ...

A January 18 essay in the  New York Times Sunday Book Review, "I Change, You Change," by writer Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, discuss...

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

July 2010.  I'm sitting next to Therese Pautz, a woman in my Madeline Island book-writing retreat.  It's midsummer and outside...

This week I am finishing yet another round of edits on my revision of Breathing Room, my next novel.  My wonderful editor, a flight exp...