I’m so pleased to be one of the featured presenters at an all-day workshop hosted by the Triangle Chapter of…
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Category Archives: Writing Exercises
Forms of Poetry
In the middle of packing up my home office for our upcoming move, I found several binders with work from…
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Weekend Events: Leesburg, VA & Raleigh, NC
This weekend, I’ll be appearing in two states in a little less than 48 hours! First, on Friday, November 4,…
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SleuthSayers: The Possibilities Are Endless
The first day of my fiction workshop at George Mason University this semester got me thinking about the pressures to…
Continue reading →The Creative Habit
Among the award recipients at this past weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors was dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, maybe most widely…
Continue reading →Revisions Everywhere (Two Exercises)
I would say it’s that time of the semester, but I’m encountering “revisions” everywhere — and all the bad feelings…
Continue reading →A Nonfiction Writing Exercise
Writers Porter Shreve and Bich Minh Nguyen (husband and wife) have each found success individually: Shreve is the author of…
Continue reading →Naming, Part II
Eleanor Davis, aspiring actress, slightly modified her first name the moment she set foot on campus at Brown: “Eleonora,” she…
Continue reading →Another Fun Writing Exercise: Naming!
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, a common text for creative writing workshops,…
Continue reading →The Anxiety of (Assigning) Influence
I’m rereading John Hart’s books now for an essay I’m writing for the North Carolina Literary Review, and I’ve also been…
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