This post was first published in my newsletter. Why not subscribe? On a lark, I decided to write down the first lines of all the books I’ve read in the
A version of this post was originally published on September 16, 2007. A friend, Gaby, had asked me to answer her questions about writing and creativity, and I was responding
Originally published in June 2010. A while back, we attended an open rehearsal of my daughter’s middle school string orchestra. They were preparing for a festival at the time, and
The newest post on the Helping Writers Become Authors website is on a subject that is near and dear to my heart: writer’s block. In “6 Lessons Learned from 4
A version of this post was originally published on August 8, 2019. In the “rulebooks” of writing, a lot of time and attention is given to the subject of Point