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...

Here is installment two (of three) focused on my summer scheduling and my attempts to find greater balance in my creative,...

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...

In my Legacy of Words classes, I spend a good amount of time talking about VALUABLE writing. It isn’t a concept that is original with me,...

Choose Your Font Wisely As you can see, based on the story linked here, there is now a computer printing font that is made up of cats,...

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 read a blog post earlier today (a guest post by Matt Ragland over at Jeff Goins’ blog) that featured a metaphor for art that captured a...

All of the titles mentioned in this blog post (with the exception of out-of-print books) can be found here: http://astore.amazon.com/wile...

No. I’ve not started writing hip-hop lyrics. I did, however, spend most of this week dealing with some computer issues. Thankfully, none...

Those of you who have been regular, engaged readers of “Stories I Read, Stories I Tell” probably have felt a nagging absence over the...

It’s been a quiet week, creatively. Starting the middle of last week, I began to battle some serious sleep loss. The first few days, I...

I used to post, quite often, about the best music deals I found on Amazon. For me, music is a big part of my creative process. I don’t...

As I was scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning–taking a quick break from a manuscript I’m critiquing–I thought about something...

A few months ago, I posted a quick, bare-bones tutorial about using the website TweetChat to make the occasional hashtag festival on...

Here’s what I read this month: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins – Yep. I gave in. The book was better than the movie, but I liked the...

In 2009, my writer-friend Shawn Smucker found himself in a tough situation. His construction-based small business was in debt and the...

Yes, it’s been a while since I created a new installment of my video blog series, The Three Minute Writer, but if you’ve been thinking to...

A few months ago, several about-to-be MFA graduates talked about where our post-MFA search for income might lead us. Teaching: Teaching...

Jillian Lewis approached me about writing a guest post focused on conferences for writers that are held in beautiful, natural...

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