Summer is here...make time to write every day!! "In order to grow as artists, we must be willing to risk. We cannot continue indefinitely to replicate the successes of our past. Great careers are characterized by great risks." From Julia … Continue reading →

Make a list of things that annoy you. Choose one of the things and write about it. Why does it annoy you? Why should we care?

Social media has been buzzing recently with conversations about young adult fiction. Check out #yasaves on Twitter to read responses to the Wall Street Journal review of YA fiction. Here's a particularly good response to that article (with a link … Continue reading →

"Write a five hundred word descriptive passage that does not employ any visual details, but does offer sensory detail based on taste, touch, smell, and sound." From John Smolens' essay "Be The Tree" in Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from … Continue reading →

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." — Stephen King