Category: Writing Life

That Counter-Cultural Somersault

I've concluded that it's not the writing that’s difficult. What is difficult is making and maintaining space in our lives in which creativity can occur.…

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Crush or Commitment?

I have a long-form fiction project I’d like to discuss for a moment. Let’s call it Fabula. (Fabula is Latin for story.) When I’m working…

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Three Portraits of a Reader

He reads Robert Alter’s translation, The Five Books of Moses. Seeking to understand the literary qualities of the Hebrew––a language he studied for three weeks…

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Three Portraits of a Writer

He writes as if composing a letter to a friend. Head bowed over his laptop, words drop like spring rain, silence but for the soft…

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Writing at Papa’s House and Yours

Monday morning, instead of logging on to my computer in my home office and dialing in for my first meeting of the day, I made…

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