Category: The Writing Life

Writing is one of those arts that we take for granted. We write emails, cards, grocery lists and text messages. Some of us write lengthier

Starting a project is always exciting and there is a lot of initial energy to keep you going because ideas are made of thin air.

What does it take to get your work published? In today’s world the opportunities for publishing your essays, short stories and poems are more abundant

One of the many challenges facing writers is learning to generate text; source material from which to craft an essay, an article or even a

One of the things that worries me most as a writer is making mistakes. Not the sort of mistake that is reasonable, like a typo

It is easy for new writers to assume that writing happens spontaneously. Inspiration can strike at any time and the all the writer must do is put pen

As writers it is important to have a large vocabulary; an arsenal of words to accurately describe events, feelings, scenes and ideas. But sometimes in

When you think about the craft of writing, what are the first images that come to mind? A typewriter, a computer, a pen and pad,

One might easily assume that there is only one narrator for memoir, the author. But actually, there are several distinct voices that narrate memoir. There is

Developing Characters in Memoir In memoir characters are real people. The author is both the writer and the main character. In this way characterization and