Several clients have emailed me lately, asking how to deal with the flood of emotions that comes with writing memoir. "Memories bring b...

Voices are only a small part of human communication. We read emotions via gestures, eye movement, and facial expressions, as well. In book...

I love writing dialogue. I've taken classes on how to craft it, where to put it to break up and add rhythm to a scene. I see dialogue-...

In their book, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Renni Browne and Dave King tell the story of interviewing different editors in the publishi...

A client in California emailed me a few weeks ago about film she watched that helped her write emotions more vividly into her memoir. ...

A new author wrote me this week. She'd read my writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, and it helped her realize which book project s...

Camilla was a writer in my New York classes many years ago. She completed a memoir about her family in Italy during World War II. I remember...

Cheryl Strayed, author of  Wild,  once said, "The most powerful strand in memoir is not expressing your originality.  It's tapping ...

Perhaps you know these important signs of creative burn out:  an overactive inner critic, a blue feeling about one's work, a sense of de...

During the height of the riots and fires, I sought ease in mind-candy movies.  One was  Tootsie,  from the eighties.  It kept me entertaine...