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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve updated my Writer @ Large business services as I ready to head into another “writing season” with all of my delightful, hard-working [...]

Brad and I arrived safely at Interlochen Center for the Arts after a long, enjoyable two-day drive from North Carolina. Now that I’ve been coming here for five years, there’s no doubt [...]

My novelist friend from across the river has been away much of the summer. I was supposed to hand my novel over to her on July 10, but then this. Now this (deep focus). Last night, she came over [...]

Here are some of my revision pages from the novel. I like to call revision “re-visioning.” As often as I’ve traveled to Interlochen Center for the Arts since 2010, I’ve [...]

Two weeks ago, I blogged about my crisis of faith with the novel. That post also included a plan to handwrite a compressed version of notes on author Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story and [...]

I’m very excited to share that author Jesse Goolsby selected “15 Great Books About Iraq & Afghanistan” in an essay for The Daily Beast. The list include Flashes of [...]

It’s hard to believe that, 10 years ago, The Writing Life Blog began. I wasn’t yet a writer. I was a 26-year-old coffee-loving, mountain-loving, Oregonian living in rural Appalachia [...]

This week I’ve thrown myself full bore into developing course content using Haiku Learning, an online platform that hosts courses for instructors and learning institutions across the world. [...]

Friends following The Writing Life on Facebook will know that I spent last week in Gatlinburg, TN as the first Writer-in-Residence in the 100+ year history of Arrowmont School of Arts & [...]

{source} Even when people tell you a particular challenge is perfectly normal, it can still feel like one heck of a rock-your-boat experience. I can certainly say as much for my fifth revision of [...]