Sometimes when I’m bored, I write a pantoum. According to Poetry Form, “the Pantoum became popular in Europe and later North America in the nineteeth and especially the twentieth century.”

Here’s another tool I’m having fun with. The visual thesaurus is a little difficult to describe so you might want to just go check it out yourself. Similar to an

Ed and I went people watching last night at Comfest. What a slice of life! Community Festival (aka Comfest) has been livening up Columbus every June for 34 years. In

John Gardner is brilliant. Okay. We knew that. But in re-reading The Art of Fiction, I’m seeing so many things I didn’t see before. And, of course, what I’m really

I have nothing of importance to report this morning. Last Thursday I mailed 303 pages of a very disorganized draft of the memoir to freelance writer Tania Casselle for her

It’s a scary world out there. Terrorists, hurricanes, cyber-thieves, and inflation. And the publishing world is no different! But thanks to the folks at Preditors and Editors, writers can sleep

In her memoir, Seducing the Demon, Erica Jong (Fear of Flying, Any Woman’s Blues) writes of the Muse: She’s fickle. She appears and disappears at will. We can’t control her.

I’ve been doing my best to avoid thinking or doing anything not related to the memoir I’m writing, but wacky and wonderful writing tools keep attacking. This Wednesday when Rob

Today is the day that the Muses hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Wherever two or more of us are gathered in the Muses’ names, it

The contents of the magic orange clinique bag came in handy last August at a weekend writing workshop. I’d put what I thought was an empty coffee cup in my