An Hour A Day

Most writers I know love rituals that summon the muses for the act of creation. My main one is writing for an hour a day, timed with my beau...

This past weekend I attended (via ZOOM) a workshop hosted by the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and presented by l...

Life progress report: I finished a full draft of my verse novel. I completed a round of extensive revisions from brilliant writing-group com...

Years ago, the chair of the Philosophy Department asked me to serve on a particularly dreary committee. I hesitated: "It sounds like so...

Today is the final day of the intensive six-week Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial I've been teaching for the graduate programs in chil...

When I first became a university philosophy professor, almost thirty years ago, by the end of the first week of my first graduate sem...

For the past few weeks I've been crazed with revising my work-in-progress verse novel from extensive comments given to me on the earlier...