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What's your process? It's a question that gets asked a lot, or some version of it . Whenever I've done public readings, during the Q&A...

I’m a “pantser,” though I don’t like that term. But what does it even mean? That I wear pants? That I favor pants? Champion the wearing...

I had a former student/current friend recently ask me about “person “and how it works in deciding between writing in first-person vs....

This is for #writers, or for anyone interested in the whole process of writing. I want to talk about metaphors/similes. I will use the...

What do Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, J.D. Salinger, and Donna Tartt all have in...

I’ve been going to the West Virginia Writers annual conference for years. Some years I miss, but I’ve probably attended more than a dozen...

Writers often like to talk about their writing spaces, which means, of course, the space where they write, a room with a view, writers’...