We had company for seven days last week. It is part of living in Florida: People want to come visit. (We’ve had more visitors in two...

I recently recommended Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way, to a creative friend who has struggled with knowing how to best honor his...

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Blog. Website. Facebook. Twitter. G+. Goodreads. LinkedIN. Klout. Pinterest. Yelp. YouTube. Social networking is ever-present for most of...

I mentioned yesterday that one of the ways I stay in contact with other writers is through weekly Twitter-based chats, so I thought I...

Last week I blogged about having a group of fellow writers (or other creatives) with whom you periodically “check-in” regarding the...

I knew it before I graduated. I even talked about it in my graduating seminar presentation. The post-MFA writing life is difficult. As I...

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If you are online and engaged in any level of social media besides interacting with your closest friends and relatives, you get spam....

As I mentioned the other day, my blog has become much more active in the last few months. There are any number of reasons why, and there...

Sometime during the day, yesterday, my blog had it’s 20,000 visit… Yes, there are blogs that receive that many visits every week. Some...

Social media has opened up the world. It is a great way to stay in touch with friends, family, or business associates separated by great...

Wow. That’s the single word to summarize the past couple of weeks. Nothing tragic or overwhelming, but the last month has been the...

The last few weeks I’ve seen a really encouraging growth of blog traffic. That’s really nice. Along with higher traffic comes more...

Regular readers know, one of my goals the last year or so has been to be more consistent with adding content to this blog. My goal has...

I’m not naturally a person who reads a book multiple times or watches the same movie over and over. There are too many things I haven’t...

If you were to look at the blog stats chart for my blog, you’d see that last week saw more than double the usual web traffic here at...

Thanks to some fabulous Twitter folks and the Creative Writing MFA Blog, this has been a stellar week here on the Stories I Read, Stories...

Two questions recently: How difficult and time-consuming is it to start a blog and keep it up? Don’t you find all the social media stuff...

It’s already October! We are falling head-long into the holidays. With a new month comes a new batch of inexpensive CD offerings from...