the process of writing

Parking Meters

Although anyone can now be ePublished, there’s more than a little prep required to get there. The first thing you’ve got to do...

Fictional characters are not the reliable servants people sometimes take them for. Not real characters, anyway. Not ones in...

1949 seems to have been the crucial year. I’m still reading Windblown World, and it has been fascinating to watch the...

The new novel has gotten off to a good start, though I don’t have nearly the time I’d like for it. There may be people who can...

Having my students rearrange their stories is beginning to pay off. Today, one of my 5th graders apologized because she decided...