Spinning Plates
There's an act you may have seen, where someone balances a lot of spinning plates on top of poles. They'll stay there as long as they're...
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- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Reading History With a Teaspoon
Imagine there’s an ice cream factory. A really big one. Maybe it fills an entire city block. You’re allowed to go in and sample all the...
- Jul 16, 2021
- 1 min
Going Live!
I spent weeks fussing with a green screen for my videos before realizing that my roll-top desk is prettier than the backgrounds I was...
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Coming Up For Air
My wife and I used to describe the end of August as being like “packing for a transarctic submarine voyage” because of the way the school...
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
Once More Unto the Breach
Two years ago, a Writers’ Digest conference in New York City gave me a view into what the life of a professional writer’s life is like. I...
- Nov 6, 2017
- 3 min
Gold Stars
This past summer, at my very first writers conference, I had an agent ask me, “If this is your first conference, how did you learn to...
- Oct 29, 2017
- 2 min
Teacher and Writer
Two months have passed since I got back from the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York, and I feel like I’ve been swimming underwater...
- Aug 22, 2017
- 2 min
The Hook, the Book, and the Cook...
One of the agents who spoke at the Writers Digest conference last weekend described the ideal query letter as having “the hook, the book,...
- Aug 21, 2017
- 2 min
Just back from my first writers’ conference
It was wonderful…and exhausting. Here are a few highlights from my journal: Thursday– I’m completely alone tonight. Exploring the...