(Photo by Annika Treial on Unsplash) I've had quite a few excellent conversations with my ADD coach, Cam Gott, about how much overlap there is between ADD and Creativity. ADD is all about proliferation without a whole [...]
(Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash) In April I was on the faculty at the Harvard Medical School Conference on Publishing, which was pretty great, and I also got to sit in on a talk, which, being [...]
I just came back from one of the most exciting conferences I've been to--the Harvard Medical School Continuing Medical Education Conference on Publishing. I was on the faculty for the first time this year and it was truly an [...]
Once you've gotten yourself started writing, even in the smallest possible steps, and you've bumped into and gotten past some of the limiting beliefs I talked about in February and March's blog and Linked In articles, then you are ready [...]
Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash I was back from the James River Writers Conference in Richmond when I realized I was dealing with an uncomfortable truth. I had been sitting at the conference, listening to agents and editors [...]
I am a big fan of Anne Lamott’s writing about life and about writing. So I’m going to riff on a post about her that is making the rounds. She gave a Ted talk in 2015 about everything she [...]
Most of my clients and students I teach are very aware of the two, well-known paths to publishing: commercial or mainstream publishing and self-publishing. Most aspire to the commercial or mainstream path and some realize that the self-publishing route [...]
My parents were really about as opposite from Archie & Edith Bunker as you could get. My father was an extreme liberal--he was anti-war and very, very, very pro-civil rights. We heard Martin Luther King, Jr. speak when my [...]
We all know the rules for punctuating quotes, right? Commas and periods go inside the quotation marks. Colons and semi-colons go outside. [This always reminds me of an ancient skit on SNL which I will mangle but had to [...]
(Photo by Sebastien Boguszewicz via unsplash.com) When I wrote The Algebra of Snow, I was working from a short story I had written quite a bit earlier, while I was living in a log cabin in the wilds of [...]