Category Archives: Writing Exercises

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,…

The first day of my fiction workshop at George Mason University this semester got me thinking about the pressures to…

Among the award recipients at this past weekend’s Kennedy Center Honors was dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp, maybe most widely…

I would say it’s that time of the semester, but I’m encountering “revisions” everywhere — and all the bad feelings…

Writers Porter Shreve and Bich Minh Nguyen (husband and wife) have each found success individually: Shreve is the author of…

Eleanor Davis, aspiring actress, slightly modified her first name the moment she set foot on campus at Brown: “Eleonora,” she…

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, a common text for creative writing workshops,…

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…

After borrowing a couple of exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s latest for my last post, I trotted out another great writing…

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” said Thomas Mann, and…