Make Your Day Job Help Your Writing
Once, during a job interview, one of the interviewers confessed that she had google-ed me.
Then, she asked me if, as a creative writer, I actually had time for any other work—including that potential job.
This wasn’t friendly small talk between two just-met strangers.
Fair Pay: 6 Tips for Writers (and writing teachers)
Last month, as I filled my dining room table with receipts and mileages and 2022 credit card bills—all to prepare and file my 2022 taxes—I noticed a pattern.
Leading Writing Workshops: 4 questions first
Most of us are flattered when we're asked to speak to a group or lead a creative or expressive writing workshop. But there are questions to ask before you sign up.
I’m passionate (some would say ‘cranky’) about our right to tell our own story, to document our lived experiences as they have happened to us and have been processed through our individual consciousness.
Ditch that Messy Draft. Embrace the Blank Writing Page.
Should I write a new draft? Or throw my writing away?
Yesterday I decided to dust off an old, Thanksgiving holiday-themed essay. It had already been drafted and re-drafted, so (I convinced myself) it would only take an hour to edit, fix and pitch.
How to Prepare for Your Next Author Reading or Book Event
How to prepare for your book launch or author reading.
I love to tell stories, so here’s a tale about the worst — and I mean the absolute, down-and-out worst — public author reading I’ve ever attended.