Stories Are About WHO What if you just have nothing to say?  You want to write; you have ideas floating around your head, and maybe even that cursed cursor blinking disparagingly at you, your doc open, page blank. But it’s … Continue reading →

People, not Numbers In the social media world—actually, in the real world, too—we’re judged on numbers. Numbers of followers, numbers of likes, number of subscribers, number of sales, number of readers… For someone like me who is allergic to numbers … Continue reading →

The Raw Material of Writing Ideas are easy; writing is hard.  Ideas are what live in our imagination. They’re what we spool out of our head into a plethora of directions. They’re fun to think about, to work with, to … Continue reading →

Write Your Own A+ Story My daughter’s professor explained that the expectation for a “A” essay was to enlighten her with an analysis she hadn’t seen before. At first glance, it seems like a sound criteria for a high-level university … Continue reading →