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Sometimes, I’m not sure where to begin. Can you relate? I think the recent Perseid meteor shower sums up this feeling quite well. It featured nearly 200 meteors per hour at its peak. With [...]

This week, flash author Gay Degani published a guest blog post I wrote for her blog, Words in Place. Her blog is a great resource to discover new writers and find inspiration. I’m delighted [...]

This week, I’m teaching my Memoir Writing week-long worskhop for Interlochen College of Creative Arts in northern Michigan. This is the sixth year in a row I have taught this program and it [...]

After six years of drafting and revising, deep thinking, and heartfelt questioning…I’m proud to say that my essay about a young man who has been missing since March 2010, has been [...]

I first met author Matt Gallagher through his blog-to-book memoir, Kaboom. Several years later, we served on a panel together sponsored by Words After War, and not long after that I invited him [...]

Last month’s webinar on flash form writing was a blast! I hosted folks from three different time zones, across all genres of writing. We read, discussed, drafted, shared, and talked shop. [...]

The dog days of summer are upon us and I try to walk or run along the creek at least three times a week. Last week’s sightings–with hardly any effort–included indigo bunting, [...]

Ready for a treat? Give yourself 45 minutes this week to write, experiment, and ask questions. I’m so excited about my upcoming Into the Flash flash form writing class that kicks off at the [...]

This week, the wonderful flash fiction and craft publication, Fiction Southeast, published an essay that I wrote titled “What is Flash Fiction?” In this, I discuss the difference [...]