Names are important. We'll get to that. Last week I did something that I'd never done before. No, I didn't go bungee jumping or sky...

I recently had a discussion with my brother-in-law who'd just finished reading my novel. He said he loved all the poetry I incorporated,...

Are you familiar with the following poem? How does it make you feel? Even though Rewriting Adam is a novel, I wanted to incorporate my...

Do you ever feel like an African wildebeest jumping heedlessly into the unknown? I've felt like that ever since I took the plunge into...

In my granddaughter's mindfulness to the sound of an airplane in the sky, I realized something else. And that is, how important sound is...

99,468. Does that number mean anything to you? How about if I told you that's the number of words in my novel. Does that mean anything to...

Okay. Okay. I know you've been patiently waiting. Hopefully it will be worth the wait! These were the four choices from my poll back in...

I'll be the first to admit that I'm NOT technologically savvy. Up until now, I've done pretty well at learning the basics. But what I've...

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell, 1984. The novel that brought us "Big Brother,"...

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina (transl....

A novel's opening line. I've never been happy with mine. And so I've been reworking the opening scene to make it better. How do I improve...

That fall, in a fiction-writing course, I wrote the first five chapters of a novel.

Snippets of life as a novelist working toward publishing my first novel. I have been working on a novel titled Rewriting Adam for the...