Category: writing

How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Writers have borrowed a trick from artists, writing en plein air, outside, making observations and jotting notes the way that painters take canvas, paints and easel out to capture what they see. Books and websites about plein air writing are plentiful, with tips, gear and strategies. I’ve found value both in writing and drawing this…

  • We walk in the morning before breakfast. Almost every day. Dreary, rainy, sunny, beckoning — whatever. We have our routes. But sometimes we venture along a street or an alley off our usual pattern. Last week on a dreary morning, we ventured down an alley that rarely calls to us. (An aside about the alleys…

  • I missed two personal deadlines to get a somewhat polished version of my young adult thriller, “The Macklin Powers,” off to early readers. I promised to send it on a Friday. Friday passed with nothing sent. Then a week went by. Then I promised it would arrive on Monday, a day that also came and…