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The title for this post is quoted from an article written by Lauren Smiley for theverge.com. As my son River gets closer and closer to his second birthday (this coming November), there’s a big [...]

I used to be a big fan of taking my time. I loved free writing morning pages by hand in my journal, then reading a few stories by a favorite author, then thumbing through old story drafts before [...]

It’s summer and I’m busy trying not to be busy. In other words, I’m taking care of important tasks that got set aside during my prime teaching season, and there’s nothing [...]

Toe River Arts Council promotes the arts in North Carolina’s Mitchell and Yancey counties and recently they visited my writing studio. “When you’re a writer and you’re in [...]

On May 15th and 16th I’m leading a conversation on the Right to Write with the International Women’s Writing Guild. In preparation, I wrote a guest post sharing my experience [...]

I believe strongly in supporting and celebrating fellow authors, and that includes the writers who enroll in my Maximum Impact courses. Today is all about sharing the recent flash form writing [...]

This week I’ve thrown myself full bore into course content for Into the Flash. There are three spaces left as of this morning – so if this blog post teaches you something, I hope [...]

The craft of writing flash fiction has always intrigued me, ever since I pulled Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories edited by Tom Hazuka, Denise Thomas, and James Thomas off the shelf in my [...]

Flash form writing works for everyone–all ages, backgrounds, and interests–because writing short and writing from images lets people hit the ground running. I have taught flash [...]

Interested in joining fellow students from around the world in a flash form writing online course full of community and collaboration? If you’re wondering whether a live and online course [...]