Through the Osher Institute at the University of Richmond, from time to time my friend, Jan, teaches a class called “In Search…
How and where is it best to enter into a particular story—which moment, which sounds and which smells should a…
Plots. So hard to conceive. So necessary to craft well. You’ll often hear writers talk about the struggle to tease…
I’m scared right now. Scared that I won’t be able to write another novel, or at least, not one worth…
My agent nixed the novel I finished drafting earlier this year, and it’s taken me a couple of months to…
In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…
In mid-March, as I staffed the James River Writers (JRW) table at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville,…