This one of those, “I hate to say it” posts. But, I will. I am taking a blogging break. If you are a subscriber to this blog (and if you...

Writing is a lonely profession. So is blogging, sometimes. The first year and a half that I had this blog, it was a little like talking...

Just like finding the right method of writing, there is no ONE WAY to organize and make sense of the mountains of papers that pile up on...

I’ve featured a lot of writing prompts on the blog. They’ve become a regular feature. The thing is, I’m not sure they are useful. They...

Warning: This installment of the Three Minute Writer is more like four and a half minutes long. I’ve talked on the blog, here, about...

Last weekend, after meeting several deadlines (both real and self-imposed) and hacking my way through two difficult revisions during the...

Some say writing is like riding a bike: Once you learn, you don’t forget how to do it. What say you? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watc...

People ask about my process when they find out I’m a writer. “What does that look like? Do you sit at the computer all day?” Yes. Some...

This is one of those blog posts that may be more for my own benefit than it is a post for you, the reader. (You can read it, though. I...

Don’t take anything I’m about to say as an indictment of my wife or as an indication that I wasn’t thrilled that we had a summer vacation...

This Unblocker is a writing prompt you’ll come across in any number of books and workshops, in one form or another. You can use this one...

The week is winding down, and here we are again, with another Unblocker to help you break out of a writing slump. This unblocker is all...

Today’s Unblocker isn’t necessarily related to any writing project you are currently working on. Instead, this is designed more to be a...

Well, here is the first of a new video blog (vBlog) feature here on the Stories I Read, Stories I Tell blog. In episode #1, I take a...

Today and Thursday this week, I’m going to be giving you an adaptation of an exercise in “What if?” by Bernays and Painter. You can get...

Tuesday Morning: Unblocker #2…If you’ve hit a temporary dead end with your writing or just want something new to try out, check out...

If you are like me, and I’m not assuming that you ARE, you’ve read–at some point in your life–a self-help style book about finding your...

So, I have this story. It’s called, “The Silence of God is Impossible to Bear”. This was a story that I wrote several years ago, and it...

Yeah I was a south bound child Yeah I had a small town life But I turned out alright in the north Livin’ that southern kind of life...

So in a previous post I mentioned that I was starting a tracking experiment, where I’m setting an “ideal writing/work week” goal, and...