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

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...

As I announced yesterday, I am going to spend this week on the blog sharing some words of literary wisdom from some of my wonderful...

Over the next few days (with a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, naturally) I’ve asked some of my favorite writer friends to help out...