Writing

No one would say I'm a poet. I'm not, but occasionally I write something that goes beyond my standard doggerel. I'm very happy to announce that my poem, "Raising Ben," will be featured in an upcoming anthology, which celebrates the30th anniversary of the Smith...

All of us who write get a series of questions, most of which are asked out of curiosity, a few out of envy, and even fewer to debase us. How long does it take to write a book? What's your "real" job? How long do you write every day? How much money do you make? Are you...

It's such a tiny word. We. W and E. And yet, it's such a powerful concept. It's the power of more than one doing something together. For a writer, "we" is the writer and her characters. They don't exist in a vacuum. Writers need to listen to their characters to be...

Do you remember the cheesy games we used to have to play? Those ice breakers at camp, corporate retreats, training sessions? Those adult questions that were little more than "what I did on my summer vacation" but which were meant to share something most people...