A few years ago, I was lucky enough to study with a well-known novelist online.  She offered a workshopping class that focused on micr...

A friend once said:  "Books are marriages.  Sometimes I miss the one-night stands."  Ever feel that way?  Writing a book deliv...

Last fall, the Harvard Business Review ran an article about the new use of story in business presentations.  Rather than Death by Powe...

A friend told me a great story about a long-distance swimmer.  In one of his swims, this athlete ran into a school of jellyfish.  He'...

A writing colleague sent me this recent article from the Washington Post --a humorous look at how memoir has evolved.  One new direction is...

Imagine finishing your book manuscript and sending it out to agents and then publishers--and getting a big YES!  You've sold your bo...

This week I'm taking a rest break from my book.  I'm still thinking about it, still mulling over its many problems, but I have r...

Still life.  A painting term for something captured in time.  Frozen, unmoving, maybe even perfect.  Looks pretty.  Gets a little borin...

Writing a book is hard work.  So it helps to get help--anything that has worked before.  What makes a story satisfying?  What keeps us r...

Writers who take on a book learn that it is always connected to their lives, some way, somehow.  Even if the story is about another pl...