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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 [...]

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 [...]

{source} I had the distinct honor of reading alongside award-winning novelist Mary Kay Zuravleff last night. Although Flashes of War was for sale on the book table, I knew instinctively that [...]

What a line-up! Just twenty-four hours from now, I get to fly to one of my favorite, creative places on the planet: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Readers of The Writing Life will know [...]

Wallowa Mountains, Oregon I’m delighted to share this news and link with you today, via the very fine literary publication, Consequence Magazine. From the notes on their website, [...]

I’ve never been one for shoot ’em ups. No high speed car chases. No murder mysteries or psychological thrillers. Books, movies–across the mediums–I just don’t feel a [...]