This morning as I walked my usual path in our neighborhood—feet crunching on unraked leaves, eyes squinting into a strong early November sun, face soaking in unusual fall warmth—I listened to writer Karen Russell read and discuss Mavis Gallant’s New Yorker short story “From the Fifteenth District.” The New Yorker Fiction Podcast is one of my favorite …
It’s that time of the year again! No, not election season. If it’s November, it is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). While I don’t plan to participate in NaNoWriMo this year, I do want to piggyback a bit on NaNoWriMo to share writing resources and tips daily throughout November, beginning with some interesting behavioral economics research …
L Is for Lifelong Learning Today I am very happy to share an interview with online writing instructor Christi Craig. Christi and I first met, appropriately enough, online several years ago through a writers’ social network, and when we realized we lived only a few miles from each other, we began to meet in person. …
Resources for writers and other creatives “I don’t need discipline because I love to write.” ~ Jo Nesbø The Discipline of Passion, Part I A good friend sent me a link this week to Marion Dane Bauer’s “While I’m Talking about Aging,” a thoughtful piece about life, death, writing, and the choices we make every …
As a writing teacher of engineering students, I’m always looking for ways both to help them become better writers and thinkers and to motivate them to do so.