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Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is a worldwide book club for writers that provides innovative systems for accountability, useful to writers and book lovers alike. I’ve carefully [...]

I remember my first summer after graduating from Whitman College. Following four years of reading slow, heady texts by Kant and Cixous, Maimonides and Montaigne, I dove headlong into summer [...]

Airstream Dispatches (now registering!) is an innovative, low-pressure, online community for writers. We’ll study 6 books, gather for 6 webinars, & write through 6 prompts–all [...]

Here in the mountains of NC, dog days of summer doesn’t really apply–at least in terms of oppressive heat. And while my Pacific Northwest roots mean I’ll never feel completely [...]

Maybe it had more to do with being alone, with being completely immersed in a world I discovered between the pages of a book. Or maybe it was the fact that, at the end of whatever book I held in [...]

  “I had serious fun with this prompt! I haven’t felt that in a while. I was drawn to keep at my draft and would not have written it if not for the habits of mind you are trying to encourage [...]

I’ve been conducting informal research amongst Maximum Impact’s private students, writers I meet at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and fellow creatives whose work I admire. More than anything [...]

For many years, I’ve been teaching from an accountability soapbox. Here’s what I wish every writer could understand: Accountability for writers doesn’t have to be  about harsh, [...]

I recently heard author Patricia Ann McNair deliver an excellent craft talk (at this event), in which she detailed the benefits of distraction. Sure, it’s one thing to check your email when you [...]

During a craft lecture at my first residency for Pacific University’s low-res MFA program, a fiction author took to the podium and announced: “You are responsible for what you don’t read.” He [...]