When you know the answer, what keeps you reading (or watching)?
I love reading narrative nonfiction, and that’s the genre for my current writing project. Because I’m in the revision stage …
Category Archives: Writing
REBLOG: If Wishes Were Horses — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Life is about figuring out your priorities. What you put at #1 is going to push something else down to …
Polar Vortex forces me to blog!
Sundogs over Madison Lake on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Air temperature was -8 degrees F. Photo by author. The polar vortex has …
When you have competing interests, what wins?
Photo Credit: verchmarco Flickr via Compfight cc For about three months now, several days a week the first thing I …
A story revealed through census records
Ancestry let me know the other day that I had some documents to review and add to my tree. A …
The true crime genre for young adult readers
I’m intrigued by what sounds like a dearth of narrative nonfiction books for young adults, specifically true crime. True crime …
Admiration, or envy? You decide
We all look at others. Figuratively, we look at what people are wearing, their hair, their makeup, the way they …
The next wave of memoir
Photo Credit: Bosc d’Anjou Flickr via Compfight cc In all the years I’ve taught memoir at The Loft, at times …
Generating ideas for memoir
Photo Credit: MarkGregory007 Flickr via Compfight cc I’m teaching a generative memoir workshop at The Loft Literary Center on Saturday …
How not to be disappointed at a book festival
Smaller book festivals are notoriously hit or miss. Same with readings, workshops, or bookstore events. I was part of a book …
