Once  month I attend a generative “Community Writing” drop in group run by the Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop . Sometimes the prompts...

Image made with Adobe Firefly (not by me, and I'm not thrilled with it, honestly). But I'm ecstatic that my first-ever sold-for-money...

The photo looks like a writer happily on vacation, working on his book while sitting by the lake on a breezy summer afternoon. Actually...

I’ve always been a “pantser,” one of those authors who write by the seat of their pants. I would create characters and then sit back and...

Just two days after selling my first story, I was a “featured writer” at a public reading sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Writers...

Checking my email last night before bed, I see: We’re excited to inform you that your flash fiction story "Invocation" has been accepted...

Umpteen, of course, is a precise number about halfway between a bunch and a bazillion. This was the Write Angles conference put on by...

That’s the name of one of the many books on my shelf full of advice on how to write a novel. It could also be my personal motto. Around...

I feel kind of vulnerable sharing this, but I think it's an important cautionary tale. It’s been three weeks now, and I’m finally ready...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the agents who spoke at the Writers Digest conference last weekend described the ideal query letter as having “the hook, the book,...

It was wonderful…and exhausting. Here are a few highlights from my journal: Thursday– I’m completely alone tonight. Exploring the...