A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, my second novel, is getting its cover designed this week. A huge step in making any book real a...

Some people love lots of sensory detail in writing. I'm one of them. If a writer shows me the place, what the people wear, the smells an...

A memoirist in one of my online classes was trying to write about the sadness she felt at her father’s unexpected death. Her feedback group ...

Some people feel Covid is behind us, some are still being cautious about in-person meetups. Whatever your preference, it's also sweet to...

We're a few months past the "whee" of New Year's resolutions when anything seems possible. I love setting them, but I also...

The question of writing in present tense versus past tense didn't even occur to me when I began writing and publishing back in the eight...

Alison McGhee, writing instructor and author of many wonderful novels including Shadow Baby (my favorite), once taught a very effective exer...

I finished a really GOOD novel last month--written by someone else, a writer who is just entering the publishing scene but has done a marvel...

The internet is full of great questionnaires for characters. I love taking a break from the grind of writing a book to play with one of thes...

One of my favorite weekly reads about writing is George Saunders' Story Club. Recently he wrote a post about the time it takes to grow i...