Category: Writing Life

  • When Under Duress, Write

    I wrote the first pages of the first draft of The Confessions of Adam after a stressful evening at a church leadership meeting. I recall…

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  • The Writing Degree

    Disclaimer: Like starting a writing group, or attending a writers’ conference, earning a writing degree can be a terrific way to procrastinate and avoid the…

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  • The Writers’ Workshop*

    Disclaimer: Like earning a writing degree, or attending a writers’ conference, joining or starting a writers’ workshop can be a terrific way to procrastinate and…

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  • The Writers’ Conference

    Like earning a writing degree, or joining a writers’ group, attending a writers’ conference can be a terrific way to procrastinate and avoid the hard,…

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  • Literary Dream #1 07.20.2018

    I am attending a writer’s conference, a small gathering of ~200 writers. I enter the room and find a seat. As I’m waiting for the…

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