The Self-Made Writer

I love revising. Really. But it’s hard, and harder still to teach. If you don’t believe me, plant yourself among inspired third graders with...

Some call it resilience, but I think that’s too nice a word, too easy. I prefer bounce, because it often comes with a smack, and the whole g...

A good style should show no signs of effort.  What is written should seem a happy accident.  ~ W. Somerset  Maugham They’re tiny and seemin...

The part of a writer that is available for public viewing is what's on the page. This is the truest version of themselves. Malcolm Gladw...

Most of my writing life has been a waste of time. I mean this in the nicest possible way. An efficiency expert would produce a dismal repor...

There are books about how to read as a writer, but I haven’t yet read one. It’s not interest I lack, but time. Like Joshua Bodwell, author o...

Ethereal, bewitching, seductive  - thus have reviewers praised  Alaska  author  Eowyn Ivey’s  best-selling debut novel  The Snow Child .  I...