Writers at the Table: Meet Ted Johnson
For well over a year, I’ve been leading a creative writing class at a senior living center near my home, listening to a great group of folks tell their stories. I’ve grown fond of these writers. They...
View ArticleWhat Happens When a Writer Goes on Jury Duty
You write a piece of flash (fiction or non…I’ll never tell). The Juror Like cattle they herd us into assembly to sit and wait for an indeterminate amount of time. “Thank you for serving.” “Make...
View ArticleRedirect >> Flash Nonfiction: The Online Course
There are certain stories my gut wants me to put down on paper. But, I’ve struggled to transform the power of certain memories into words on the page. My early drafts read long and convoluted and...
View ArticleRedirect: Writing in Short Form
Today I’m guest blogging for Rochelle Melander, the Write Now! Coach, and talking flash nonfiction: There are certain stories my gut wants me to put down on paper. Like the one about the summer I...
View ArticleStudy Fiction to Write Creative Nonfiction
“[T]rue stories, well told.” That’s the definition of creative nonfiction, Lee Gutkind says (in this brief radio interview), as he admits he loves to read fiction–even as he is the founder of one of...
View ArticleDesigns for the New Year: Writing Opportunities in 2017
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.” ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart Hey now, come on, Mary. Writing may not be romantic (though...
View ArticleFor no good reason.
The other night I watched Bridges of Madison County for no good reason. Other than the fact that I remember it being one of my mother’s favorite movies. And maybe it’s because we’re coming up on...
View Article#PenToPaper: In the Distance
Last week I posted on writing prompts and putting pen to paper. Practice what you preach, they say. The Prompt: in the distance. A swallow returns to its nesting place, a salmon returns to the mouth of...
View ArticleTiny Essay: Fruit on the Vine
At first weedy and full of needles unseen, it’s easy to mistake the raspberry bush for a nuisance, the way it pushes through the neighbor’s fence uninvited and spreads woody roots across your tiny...
View ArticleRemington Roundup: Stay Connected#Reading, #Writing, & #Listening
With winter days and shorter days and the holidays, it’s easy to fall away from our usual reader/writer patterns and find ourselves feeling detached. Here’s your December roundup of links to#reading,...
View ArticleOn Walking & Writing
I just finished reading Antonia Malchik’s A Walking Life. I took my time with this book, partly because I was traveling a lot in between reading and partly because this book is full of places where one...
View ArticleTiny Essay: It’s simple, she said.
Sitting on a bench in my favorite tiny woods, I heard the twigs crack in an uneven rhythm and expected to see a chipmunk hop and scurry past. Instead, I turned into a gaze of intention, steady and...
View Article#AmWriting, #AmReading
“One writes out of one thing only–one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only...
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