SHIMMERS IN THE DARKNESS

November is National Novel Writing Month or, for those in the know, NaNoWriMo. The month-long challenge that began in 1999 with 21 novel...

I was feeling badly about feeling badly about this time of year. Specifically: Autumn, and even more specifically, what has become the m...

“I don’t strike out much. I write on... I do one draft. I do the editing in my head first. I very seldom change paragraphs and things...

  There’s a song being played on the “Hits” pop station I’m forced to listen to when my kids are along for the ride (almost always). It...

"I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence…. In the after...