An Hour A Day

It's been two weeks now since I got the fabulous, extensive, probing critical comments on my novel-in-progress from my new writing group...

A number of years ago I was explaining to my son Gregory that one of my favorite Christmas songs, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christm...

One favorite line I use when teaching writing classes is from the poet John Masefield: "Great art does not proceed from great criticism...

 In order to avoid sitting around anxiously fretting about what critique group suggestions I'll receive (tonight!) on the novel that I w...

To those of you who start a new life on the first of the month, as I do, happy new life! And isn't it satisfying when the first of the m...

One of the most useful tools I have for myself as a writer is the distinction between a sprint and a marathon. A sprint is the specialty of ...

Last June I had a new furnace installed in my house. Last night the new furnace stopped working. Snow was falling, and the outside tempe...