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Copper Creek glimpsed from on high; I run down along the water’s edge. Early evening, I move through sunshine and snowmelt, the world a cacophony of colors after weeks of white, white, [...]

Changing patches, changing dojos; bittersweet and thrilling all at once! Re-entry into the dojo lifestyle feels like a slow and steady form of pummeling, interrupted by small victories of insight [...]

A world-class dojo, here? You’d better believe it. Where do I begin? Honestly, my obsession with martial arts training took over The Writing Life blog for nearly three years. Other than [...]

Sometimes when you travel, there is only this: The smell of the man from Zimbabwe’s cologne–like a nightclub, only it’s 5am and you haven’t had coffee or breakfast yet and [...]

This Saturday evening, I’ll be giving a new craft lecture, “Narrative Genesis and Imagination” at Interlochen Center for the Arts at 5pm in The Writing House. A handful of The [...]

Last week, I had a breakthrough. Not on the page. Not yet… But in my mind. It hardly seems worth writing about now, but I’m dedicated to trying to articulate and share my process. It [...]

After stalling for about a month, trying to come at painstaking chapters from various different mental states and stages of creativity, I’ve come to the realization that–while I can [...]

I’m very happy to share the news that Fiction Southeast published an essay I wrote titled “Why I Write.” It appeared in their beautiful online magazine this morning. This [...]

[So…I took a week off the blog. It happens sometimes. I did start 3 new flash nonfiction pieces, take on a handful of new work, plan my bachelorette party, and get invited to write [...]