I’m still choked up after reading Her Own Two Feet, just out from Scholastic’s FOCUS imprint, about a Rwandan girl…
Writing is a solitary activity, but we don’t have to do it alone… Won’t you sign up with me?
I buy oodles of books. They pile up on shelves, and on a wide windowsill beside my writing desk. They…
In this post by author Kathy Steffen, she talks about “giving your characters accountability.” I thought that was an odd…
I should complete a first draft before deciding on my opening lines. I know I know I know this, but…
The worst part of the writing process is the blank screen, the white paper, the emptiness, the limitless possibilities. The best…
In the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, John Stazinski (page 29) bemoans the tendency of MFA programs…