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I’ve been waiting for today since April, when I first learned that my work was being considered for the Queen’s Ferry Press Best Small Fictions anthology. Today, the 2015 collection [...]

Continuing the conversation from earlier this week, I want to share some of my encounters with the cadets during my visit to the United States Air Force Academy. This blog is somewhat like a [...]

It’s been an interesting two days, with two more to go, and my mind is buzzing with fragments from the conversations I’ve been able to have so far during my visit to the United States [...]

Continuing the conversation about forbidden words—which is really just a discussion of the ways in which our own rules can work against us—I wanted to share a few more “before” and “after” [...]

Anyone who has ever taken a class with me or worked with me through my mentorship program, Writer at Large, will laugh out loud about this post… I just met with my novelist friend for [...]

Flash stories are often called a work of art on a grain of sand.Here are some grains of sand viewed under a microscope (source). I’m pleased to announce that the next offering of my [...]

This time one year ago, I backpacked 93 miles around an active volcano. I came home with a wide grin and a bad case of plantar fasciaitis. The saving grace was acupuncture treatments and my [...]

Longtime followers of The Writing Life will know that I occasionally give a shout-out to truly inspiring authors whose work I admire and respect. Past posts have featured Helen Benedict and [...]

by Rockwell Kent It’s no secret that Alaska is my greatest muse. Having visited in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014, and also having written nearly half of Flashes of War there during [...]

{source} I realize the irony of blogging about best practices for time away from the Internet and email, but just hear me out: Having spent 4 1/2 days off the grid in the Upper Peninsula, [...]