(Also published on Stuff Writers Like) If you have ever been struck by the thought, “I’m a fraud; I can’t really do this,” you know that it feels very isolating. But in fact, research shows that as ma...
Pia Kealey
I regularly pray that no copies of my earliest adult attempts at fiction writing are ever unearthed. I was making at least half of the common writing mistakes in them: telling when I could be showing;...
Probably everyone has had the experience of driving through a strip mall area and recognizing that it is Anywhere and Nowhere. I used to travel frequently for work, and on quite a few occasions I had...
Book review of REPORTING LIVES by Debra Pickett—Inspired by , Reporting Lives immerses the reader in a fascinating meeting of unlikely worlds: ambitious urban journalist meets third world Kenya. The a...
In the beginning, there is nothing—a blank page, a lump of clay—and then something sensible begins to take form. As creators, this is the exhilarating part, with writers filling pages that coalesce in...