Tomorrow I will be at one of my favorite writing havens--the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis--teaching a room full of writers about ...

Good discussion this week in one of my online writing classes:  Bored with her story, a writer asked:  "How do I keep my own intere...

One of my favorite books to shake myself out of creative slumps is a thin little volume called Creative Authenticity.  Author Ian Roberts...

A reader from New York has been working hard on her first draft of a novel for over a year.  First drafts aren't easy.  Initially ...

Once you begin a book, you begin to live in overwhelm.  I'm talking about the sheer volume of documents--whether printed pages or vi...

A big challenge for most new book writers is figuring out time.  Not the time to write, but the time as it's portrayed in their bo...

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'...