Happy New Year
I opened the front door on December 31 and let 2021 walk out of my life. What was done was done (or left undone), but what is left to do needs the freedom to get started. I need to get…
How Breaking (Temporarily) From the Writing Life Helped My Writing
The Struggle to Return is Real: The 6 steps I am taking to return to the writing life This article is for those writers who struggle, right now, to get any words on the page, for those writers who find the…
Stop Editing As You Write
Shannon Hale has a wonderful piece of advice for writers – She’s right. I’ve thought a great deal about this over the last few weeks as I get ready to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starting November 1.…
Take Chances With Your Writing and You Can Expand Your Talents
The first year I taught high school creative writing, I experimented with daily prompts. Why? My required English/language arts students always seemed to have difficulty deciding what to use as a topic for any given essay. They would waste so…
If You’re a Writer, WRITE!
In teaching high school English/language arts courses, I assigned and graded a library of research papers. Invariably, at least one student in the class would turn in a great outline for a great idea. They took massive notes in the…
And One — And Two — And Exercise that Creative Muscle!
The following article was first published in Ink and Keyboard on Medium on Monday, March 1, 2021. Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry.…
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