Feb 19Writing Memoir : When to "Break the spell"When writing memoir we start out intending to write about a time, a place, an incident, a person. As we write, our memories start to...
Jan 28Don't Read Faulkner On The Subway...and other reading advice, Or, How to be a "creative Reader"Most of us like variety in our fiction reading. I can read Cold Comfort Farm one week, then read Proust, then read Lessing. I used to...
Oct 19, 2023never show AND tellBack in grade school I dreaded show and tell. I never had anything interesting to show or tell except my pet turtle, Herman. And they...
Oct 15, 2023fiction writing: STARt AT THE ENDWhen I started writing fiction I was lost. Where/how to start? So many ideas! Snippets of dialogue spinning around in my head. ...