Does your fiction need a boost? My friends Tania Casselle and Sean Murphy were asked to contribute to the book NOW WRITE! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and

I wish I were talking about those scenes we create to hop back in time. Unfortunately, my most recent flashback experience was more the post-traumatic stress disorder variety. At the

I’m thinking of changing the title of the memoir about my father’s last year. At the Columbus Writer’s Conference, an editor told us, “The title should sell; the subtitle should

The two days I spent not writing while I attended the Columbus Writers’ Conference may have paid off. I’m not jumping up and down, but I’m smiling. I met editors

Nancy Zafris, fiction editor for the Kenyon Review, emailed me about a novel writing workshop with author Karen Novak. I surfed around and found this post by Claudair at http://www.mystorylives.blogspot.com/

I hate to admit that this is not the strangest thing I’ve ever seen, but it comes close. Perhaps the Pink Hello Kitty Laptop is the true secret of writing.

I actually hate the word “Awesome,” but this weekend was, well, Awesome! Last year, I rented Spring Hollow “Lodge” at Sharon Woods Metropark (it’s called a lodge, but there are

Here’s my report: As promised, I headed to Caribou at Tremont and worked on not only two scenes, but three scenes on the memoir, Memorial, that I’m writing about the