If available sessions don’t meet your needs, people watching will fill the seventy-five minutes.Big names, wannabes, teachers who never published a word, agents, publicists, publishers, editors, illustrators, students all sort themselves into attending five hundred sessions over three days
Continue reading →Among the fears that held me back from publishing, offending somebody dear to me ranked fairly high. The powerful influence of familiar people, places and experiences in writing is reflected in AWP 2015’s first day schedule that includes three sessions on the topic.
Continue reading →With hundreds of thousands of new book titles released every year, the possibility of making a good choice to read on that next plane ride is a crapshoot. Back cover blurbs can be as transparent as real estate listings.
Continue reading →There are no road maps to smooth out the journey of caring for loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Continue reading →Living with a person with vascular dementia is living in a difficult, unpredictable and stressful situation for an unknown amount of time. Some days might be good, other days will be bad.
Continue reading →If you’re a writer trying to squeeze time with your creative work around other work, you understand the value of three weeks in a quiet house with a rocky front yard.
Continue reading →When should new writing trump working on an almost complete work? Does discipline squelch creativity?
Continue reading →Speculative fiction novelist Cynthia Kraack, author of the Ashwood trilogy was a recent guest on the Mr. Media podcast. Here are some excerpts and the video.
“Anne Hartford came to me when I was doing my MFA program. I started writing a story about a young woman standing with all of her earthly possessions in front of this big, forbidding residence. It took six months after that to understand who she was and what was going on.”
Continue reading →Writing retreat…or time away to work. The real issue may be that in American culture there is discomfort sharing the label of work with purely artistic efforts.
Continue reading →Diane Foley’s son was killed as a horrific political statement by extremists who would do the same to my child or yours. And even though he died a hero, telling the world what was happening in Syria and Iraq, the man so brutally treated was first Diane’s son, her boy.
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