Chapter Two when I sat down this morning: 3,114 words. Chapter Two at the end of the day: 2,900 words And the thing is, it really was a...

This one was The 2025 Boston Writing Workshop. It was billed as a “How to Get Published” writing event, with the opportunity to pitch a...

I just got my first subscriber. Thing is, I don’t even have a newsletter yet. I guess it’s about time I pulled one together. There’s a...

And that’s a GOOD thing. I was feeling completely stuck for the last week. I had my outline, and I had a dozen or so scenes that knocked...

A Frenchman sheds tears of patriotic grief as flags of his country's lost regiments are exiled to Africa, 1940. ...

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...