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This season on the Write Away with Nat & PJ podcast, we interviewed NYT best-selling author, humorist, and cartoonist, Bob Eckstein,...

Contemporary short fiction. Nostalgia drives a woman in her early 20’s to her hometown Walmart, where she quietly struggles to reconcile...

One of my lifelong music friends made a request to me and a subset of our high school choir friends: a mutual friend is awfully ill....

“Author Mentor Match (AMM) pairs aspiring writers with completed manuscripts with experienced authors for mentorship.” #AMMConnect 2020...

Reflections on watching the story go from messy rough draft to final, polished draft… Last week I posted the final draft of “Rainey’s...

Revising with a professional editor’s feedback Check out the Writer In Motion process start to finish: Week one post: rough draft Week...

Revising with Critique Partner feedback Check out the Writer In Motion process start to finish: Week one post: rough draft Week two post:...

The self-edited draft Check out the Writer In Motion process start to finish: Week one post: rough draft Week two post: self-edited draft...

The half-baked idea and my drafting process Check out the Writer In Motion process start to finish: Week one post: rough draft Week two...

Wherein the writing prompt escapes; ideas form; a runny, messy draft is born. Read on… What is Writer in Motion? Writer in Motion is a...

This is the first time I’ve recognized the pattern of prepare-and-despair, but it’s the third time I’ve gone through it this year. For...

This is the final drawing I did for my friend’s tattoo. When I asked my friend Erin what she wanted for her birthday, she asked me if I...

One of my writing goals is to study short stories and write some.  I found a free class called Reading and Writing Short Stories from...

You think the holidays are over, but we are smack in the middle of a holiday crisis. I debated whether or not to bring it up, because, my...

I’m so not ready to launch my author blog. As of this posting, I don’t have any published fiction; articles I have written were ghosted;...

And I have to say, I’m a little scared. My first thought was that it could be the wood under our little portable AC unit.  We put it up...

I spent a significant portion of my childhood longing to be loved by cats. After a number of years of failed attempts, my dream has come...

But the bottom line is that eventually you’re going to ask to help get dinner ready, and I’m going to ask you to chop vegetables, and my...

There is a cruel, unintentional , sort-of-boring peer pressure that goes with home ownership. The particular aspect of this peer pressure...