This is a quick post. A sort of poll question, if you will… What service or resource have you tried to find to help you with your...

“I thought you’d already given up blogging,” some of you might say. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve been actively engaged in...

As I mentioned early in the week, I hit a creative wall in the second quarter of 2013. Things weren’t happening, for me, and as the...

To be honest, I’ve been pretty down for the last week or so. As I’ve shared before, I have been teaching Legacy Writing classes via the...

Over the last few days, I’ve felt a little nervous. Sometimes I get this way, when I have this lingering feeling that something is about...

Sometimes I come across an article about writing that I know I’m going to return to again and again. David Jauss writes just such an...

One of the things that I like best about asking fellow writers to write for my blog during these “A Week With…” posts is the variety of...

Heidi Moore writes wonderfully re-imagined modern stories based on Greek mythology, among other things. She is also a medical doctor and...

Clifford Garstang wrote two of the best books I read last year (links at the end of this post) and I am happy to host his contribution to...

Today marks the start of my third installment of the “A Week With…” series where I invite some of my favorite friends and writers to...

I’ve blogged before about my process. It is something that a lot of people find interesting. I know I enjoy discussing process and...

I hope you enjoyed the essays I posted this week focused on Dorothy Parker’s classic story, You Were Perfectly Fine. Based on the blog...

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Ginger Pinholster is a writer and fellow graduate of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. You can connect with her on...

Belinda Nicoll is the author of the memoir, Out of Sync, as well as a writing and life coach. (You can read an earlier interview I did...

Earlier today I kicked off my December guest blog blizzard which will focus on Dorothy Parker’s short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. In...

In February of 2010, I posted a brief summary and discussion of Dorothy Parker’s classic short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. When I...

This is the (belated) final installment of the series of guest contributions focused on Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to...

Naming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...

I met Kelly Fordon while I was pursuing my MFA. She was working on a novel told from the point of view of a U.S. Congressman’s young...