Writing Talking to Resistance: What It Feels Like To Be Stuck in the Middle of Your Novel Resistance looks at your creative dreams and says: “Ya know, it would be a whole lot easier to eat a box of Girl Scout cookies and binge-watch Cobra Kai.”
Teaching Deep The Courage to Begin Again We feel displaced, even in our own homes and classrooms. But our terrain has changed. (And it’s not going to change back anytime soon.) Where do we start?
Writing Struggling with Comparison Anytime we start to compare ourselves to others—whether to build ourselves up or knock ourselves down—we are wading into muddy, un-productive territory.
Letters to Gus To Whiz Among the Weeds Gus, you don’t seem in the least embarrassed about this predilection for peeing on pines, on pansies, on patches of grass, greenery, or gravel.
Writing Searching for Safety Who knew that a bathroom mirror and reframing my blurts would allow me to reclaim my inner artist?
Writing Ulysses 20: The Dashboard The newest feature in Ulysses may help me make the jump to using it for ALL of my writing.
Writing Beginning The Artist’s Way In order to conquer your fear of being an artist, you just might need a system.
Writing Steal from Your Experience Use your experience to inform your characters and the places they inhabit. Use what you know to build the fictive dream and make your readers believe its real.
Letters to Gus Independence Day The mark of a truly free and intelligent person is the ability to seek out those who disagree with you and to learn from them.
News Whispers from the Universe Just wanted to drop a quick post here with some news. My story—"Smoke Signals"—appears in a new anthology that's out today.
Letters to Gus Everything is Breakable My mind drifted to Indiana Jones and Harry Potter. I wondered if you were a Parselmouth and whether you secretly longed to join Slytherin House.
