Fiction Writing

Writing through Panic

Back in early March, before it felt like we were trapped in a lousy cinematic mashup of Chernobyl, Contagion, and Zombieland, I was on a writing

From the moment I first declared myself a novelist in my twenties, there were doubters. My father, for starters. “You'll never make a living. Why

For the past three years, I've been writing (and rewriting, and tearing my hair out over, and rewriting again) my first work of historical fiction, a

Recently, one of my writing students asked for advice on how she should structure her novel. “I already have fifty pages and I don't know

Congratulations to everyone who took part in NaNoWriMo! Whether you made it to the finish line or not, we probably all have this in common after

It's easy to give up on your writing. Whether you're working on a novel, a memoir, a short story, or an article, writing is hard. Not

After my beloved dog Leo died, I entered a thick fog of grief. I felt his absence keenly because he was such an integral part of my life,

As necessary as libraries have always been to me for books and quiet spaces, until recently I never understood that libraries provide

I went on a writing retreat recently. Nothing fancy; this wasn't one of those places where you're in a cabin in the mountains and people