Every writer needs to read. A lot. All the successful ones say the same thing:

I learned how to write fiction by understanding the language of visual art. As an

I find inspiration in very unexpected places. I am a fan of reading biographies/ essays/

Franz Kafka famously said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within

1. When your mother calls you on a Monday night Asking you how to spell

I’ve always considered myself a no frills, linear, begin-at-the-beginning, chronological-until-the-end type of person. Experimental writing

My novel has received 70 rejections over the last 21 months. I have written dozens

I started working at Watson Wyatt in San Francisco after I’d been let go from

I had fantasies about how hugely creative I would be while pregnant — my body’s

The year my dad died, I was taking writing classes at University of Chicago. I

Writing on a keyboard has become a natural gesture of many modern humans. Not a

I wrote in a poem once that I am “ruled by ruled paper.” I buy

I wrote in a poem once that I am “ruled by ruled paper.” I buy

To say it now: I can hear the tangible skin of words — as one

How do we as writers best learn successful habits? By emulating the successful? As I

You imagined the chair of the creative writing program spoke the same words as the

Comedian Steve Harvey has a routine where he talks about the third eye of comedians.

My friend Chris invited me to visit her at work. She’s a nurse practitioner at

The first time I held an infant in my arms I was eleven years old.

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde. One of the hardest parts

The principle is simple: potential energy turns to kinetic energy. Momentum is a force of

“It is […] true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn

I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard with my half-sister, Judy. She’s 81, decades older than

It’s been two months since I sent my (possible) agent the book. My manuscript. My