A little inspiration... (Ira Glass)

Something to keep the juices flowing. 

I want to see these movies!

Steinbeck vs. Hemingway on Writing

Steinbeck: Hemingway: Perhaps this is nothing but the pantster vs. (sort of) plotter approach, but I think it goes deeper than that. What do...

Oh, you grammar Nazis, you...

I'm one. I admit it. I'm even proud of it. (Yeah, I taught English for ten years.) I  hate  it when people misuse punctuation. Missp...

Magical Realism Meets Disenchanted Science

I'm excited. My writer friend Edith Parzefall just released her second novel, Crumple Zone , a story of psychological suspense pub...

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling

Found this via Janet Reid 's blog this morning--thank you, Janet! Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coates shares tweets on storyteller wisdo...

On child marriage--beyond the horror to understanding

The height of mental pleasure: to have my paradigms shifted. To feel the ground shake under my unshakeable convictions of right and wrong. T...