Thursday, July 9, 2020

Peaceful, Pleasant, Productive Plodding

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I have a long to-do list every day right now. Maybe you do, too. I'm teaching an intensive Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial for the ...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

The Ultimate Author Betrayal: Falling in Love with a NEW PEN

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For as long as I can remember, I have loved Pilot Razor Point Fine-Tipped Black Marker Pens. I have written almost all of my sixty book...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Trying to Make (Teaching and Writing) Magic Happen from Afar

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Today, if COVID-19 hadn't happened, I would have been in Roanoke, Virginia, getting ready to start teaching the Advanced Creative Writin...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The Exhilaration of Brilliant Critique

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Ever since the COVID-19 lockdown began, I've been working on a verse novel (currently titled The Lost Language) about two sixth-grade b...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Falling in Love with What You Once Hated

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It's the well-worn trope of romantic comedy, of course. Boy meets girl, boy and girl hate each other, then boy and girl end up falling i...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

The Writing of Any Book Poses Some Insoluble Problem All Its Own

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I'm back to loving my verse-novel-in-progress, hugging myself with joy at every new poem added to the growing stack of pages. It isn...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Defeating the Demons of Doubt

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For several weeks now, I have been working on a book I love. I've been working on it for an hour a day, dubbing this my "Hour of ...