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“…it was really that they could not make their own images.” 🤯💛 This is so wonderfully clear– I love teaching...

A friend just joined a writing group an mentioned that feedback can feel so personal. Here’s what I told her: Writing groups can be so...

I’m so excited to have finally, finally (but surely not for the last time) convinced myself that simpler is better. That I do not need to...

I’ve never liked “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” I hated that the fable was pro-hard-working, no-time-for-fun-or-art ant. I identified...

You are good. You are enough. Don’t worry about how everyone in your town or your school does it. You have great ideas— you must follow...

When I was a kid, Roald Dahl was my favorite author. I loved “James and the Giant Peach,” and thought of it every time we flew to England...

It turns out that I can sing. I mean I can do some operatic Edith Piaf thing. At SVEA rehearsal last week I was goofing around and did a...

#mantrapages : After years of faithfully writing Morning Pages (and loving it), I quit (to my surprise) last spring. As I’ve returned to...

I performed stories from The Marvelous Imagination of Katie Addams over the weekend. I’m still not sure what to call it– but I knew that...

I read the first draft of my MS and gave myself feedback. Written feedback. As if I was writing to someone else. (It felt like I was– but...

I want to do it all. Always. This is the feeling that precedes doing none of it. Going on social media and scrolling. Eating ice cream...

On Writer’s Block jumped into my box at the Friends of the Library Book Sale. I was wary– I’ve done The Artist’s Way, this could be old...

I’m publishing my first book and it’s going so slowly. Not too slowly, but slower than my imagination. I’m a skittish colt leaping around...

I’ve been stuck in a manuscript for about a year. It’s been sad and frustrating: What if I never get back to it and all those beautiful...

What do you do when you have too many ideas? You set them free. You turn them loose. When they rush up and crowd around you, you say,...