Transform your writing life.
A theory, with a case study (n=1) Here’s a silly situation! I started A Writer’s Roadmap (AWR) in 2019 as a subtitle for what I pictured as a few nonfiction e-books in the how-to genre, specifically how to write and publish a book. I obtained the URL and made a website for it with no real …
I’m not a big fan of artists who complain about parenthood as an obstacle to creating. In a 2009 essay in Poetry magazine entitled “As if Nature Talked Back to Me,” poet Ange Mlinko writes: “…the plethora of conferences and grants and brief residencies by which cvs—and social networks, and reputations—are built, are no less restrictive to the poet-mother who …
My friend Doug, whom I met in a writing class about eighteen years ago, asked, “How long can you put aside a story and still return to it, legitimately? 10 20 30 years? When to burn shit?” A brilliant musician and writer, Doug is a very creative guy. Probably quite prolific. I don’t know how many stories he’s got …