Celebrating Other Authors

I continue to sketch and freewrite each day, as well as keep my eyes and ears open to current thinking on creative flow exercises that assist writers (in particular) in thinking outside the box. [...]

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 [...]

I’m pleased to report that the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival was a delightful success, to my eyes at any rate, as a participating author and workshop leader. Small and focused, here [...]

When I was writing Flashes of War, I didn’t read any fiction about Iraq and Afghanistan. But I immersed myself fully in many skillfully researched nonfiction books about war, the military, [...]

I have a confession: There are books I haven’t read. No, not those books; not those ones in piles on the coffee table, the ones we’ll get to eventually, the ones we’ve always intended to read but [...]