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January 2012

January 13, 2012

Another Good Argument for Blogs

By Maia Szalavitz: Blogging is often considered self-indulgent and the Internet a threat to teenage...

December 2011

December 13, 2011

Writers on Reading

From Emily Temple: Which is your favorite quote and why? “When I get a little...

August 2011

August 05, 2011

Some Comfort for Some 2

And did you see the second part? Famous Author Rejections: Hitting A Dry Spell Feel glum over...

August 04, 2011

Some Comfort for Some 1

Did you see this? I'm not in the category of the authors below, but Kris...

June 2011

June 28, 2011

Read at Whim

I don't know about you, but I can create a stack of books to read...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

On Getting Published

Potential authors often write to me and ask about writing. They ask all the right...

February 10, 2011

On Writing Well

It's against the grain to say so, but for the life of me I can't...

February 08, 2011

The Day Mark Twain was edited

Mark Twain tells stories so well one never knows how much of it got confused...

February 02, 2011

Memoir-arrhea

Too many, and that's not just a fact but a sadness. I was sitting once...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

I agree with Anne Lamott

It's about time, finding time, fighting for time, saying no to intrusions on time ---...

December 2010

December 14, 2010

Writing: Madmen and Mystics by Adam McHugh

This post is from Adam McHugh, author of the very fine book Introverts in the...

November 2010

November 12, 2010

So You Want to Write Fiction? Vonnegut Speaks

From Lifehacker, a summary of Kurt Vonnegut's advice for those who want to write short...

September 2010

September 07, 2010

The Writing Life

The Writing Life is not it's all cracked up to be. Let me jump out...

December 2009

December 28, 2009

So You Want to Write a Book?

Ten Awful Truths About Book Publishing by Steve Piersanti 6-09 Update

October 2009

October 09, 2009

Professor to Pastor

I learn so much from pastors, and I'll be blogging about one such pastor soon,...

July 2009

July 23, 2009

Never Alone 7

I don't have a commonplace book, and were I to begin, I would surely fall...

July 22, 2009

Never Alone 6

Great authors can sometimes be found in magazines and journals. I subscribe to some academic...

July 21, 2009

Never Alone 5

Shelves, by the way, do make a difference. If my books had made me famous...

July 20, 2009

Never Alone 4

So, in desultory style, I bought another of Epstein's familiar essays (which he defines as...

July 17, 2009

Never Alone 3

These sorts of questions and authors have kept me from reading much fiction. It is...

July 16, 2009

Never Alone 2

My heart, for instance, jumped when I recently re-read Dante Alighieri's (whom a Texan friend...

July 15, 2009

Never Alone 1

This is an unpublished essay I wrote a few years back and want to post...

April 2009

April 13, 2009

Rhythms of (a writing) Life

At Messiah College last week I was asked three different times this question: "How do...

September 2008

September 19, 2008

Faith and Fear 3

Good writers have an honest, authentic, living voice, and that is one thing that is...

September 18, 2008

Faith and Fear 2

Karen Spears Zacharias, like other writers, can't write without it becoming memoir-ish and personal and...

September 15, 2008

Faith and Fear

Karen Spears Zacharias is a born storyteller, and that is why I want to commend...

July 2008

July 15, 2008

A Tip for Writers

Read good writers. This is perhaps not said enough: we write more like the people...

July 08, 2008

Our Daily Rhythm

Dear Scot, Have you ever blogged about your daily rhythm? I love your blog, but...

May 2008

May 28, 2008

Fountain Pens

It's about time for me to toot a bit about the glory of writing with...

March 2008

March 10, 2008

Finally…

I got to clean off my desk. The Blue Parakeet lasted a long time and...