Principles & Prompts: A New Online Writing Class
“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner–continually and stubbornly bringing forth...
View ArticleFocus on Story: Intrigue on Page One
I am terribly introspective most days, but there are moments–plenty–when my attention span runs short. Too much coffee, too many things to do, too short on time for all that “doing,” I have to force...
View ArticleDog-Eared Pages on First Drafts
“But remember, there’s a huge difference between ‘trying hard’ (which you want to do) and ‘trying to make it perfect from the first word on’ (which is impossible and just might shut you down). The goal...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Storytelling
“I don’t know how it is for everyone else, but for me, it can’t be about the money, at least not entirely. I want to look back on my life and know that I did something worthwhile.” ~ Jennifer...
View Article5 elements to consider in choosing an online #writing course
When it comes to studying the craft of writing, I’m a big proponent of online courses. In fact, I just finished teaching one, taking one, and participating in an online critique group. I hadn’t...
View ArticleGuest Post: Kim Suhr on Honoring Your Desire to Write
Kim Suhr is the director of Red Oak Writing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She organizes Saturday workshops on craft and leads Roundtable Critique Groups–in person and now (I love this) online. Let distance...
View ArticleLoved. Lost. Found. The Reading
Last Saturday, nine women and men over the age of 70 gathered in front of a room at Harwood Place in Wauwatosa to share essays and poems they’d written during the past year. They looked entirely at...
View ArticleWrite, Critique. Rinse, Repeat: New Online Course
In a busy world, I have grown to love online classes–taking them and teaching them. There’s a camaraderie that develops in spending time together each week, sharing stories, discussing the work. And...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Storytelling
“I don’t know how it is for everyone else, but for me, it can’t be about the money, at least not entirely. I want to look back on my life and know that I did something worthwhile.” ~ Jennifer...
View Article5 elements to consider in choosing an online #writing course
When it comes to studying the craft of writing, I’m a big proponent of online courses. In fact, I just finished teaching one, taking one, and participating in an online critique group. I hadn’t...
View ArticleNew Season, New Studio, New Offer
Change is good. Wait…did I just say that? I am a list-maker and a planner and a “tell me the future because I can’t stand not knowing” kind of girl. I hate when folks in charge at the grocery store...
View ArticleDesigns for the New Year: Writing Opportunities in 2017
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.” ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart Hey now, come on, Mary. Writing may not be romantic (though...
View ArticleOn the Spaces We Inhabit: Meet #Writer Mary Lewis
Yesterday’s social media explosion on the Badlands National Park twitter account gone rogue reminds us about the value of the spaces we inhabit and the places we take for granted. Our sense of place,...
View ArticleRemington Roundup: #Listening, #Reading, & #Writing
Two steps into August, and it’s past time for a summer edition of the Remington Roundup. Here’s your links to a cool new podcast for story lovers, a how-to book for story composers, and an...
View ArticleRemington Roundup:Upcoming Events, an Online Course, & Giveaways
September rolls in with a new season in the air, a new perspective as the sun shifts its angle in the sky, and a new Remington Roundup. This month, find information on a few upcoming events (where we...
View ArticleOn #Writing Prompts: Guest post by Maura Fitzgerald
For the last several years, I’ve been the sole teacher for a group of senior citizens in a Creative Writing Class at Harwood Place Retirement Living Center. This year, I invited a fellow writer, Maura...
View Article#Writing Prompts: It’s a Family Affair
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.” ~ Boris Pasternak (as quoted in Patty Dann’s The Butterfly...
View ArticleRemington Roundup: #Watch, #Listen, #Learn.
Now that it’s October and Fall is well under way, we are back into a routine (at our house anyway) of scheduling and schooling. Some of this is formal education, some of it just life. Like navigating...
View ArticleTiny Essay, tiny prompt
The following tiny essay and prompt is part of a working collection entitled just that: Tiny Essays, tiny prompts. If you love writing in short form like I do, and you’re up for a few weeks of learning...
View Article#AmReading, #AmEditing: THEN and NOW, the next anthology by the Writers at...
Stories from THEN, essays on NOW, poetry in between. “I entered this house a new baby, coming home from the hospital in 1922. I wonder how many people have planted trees and built rock gardens in the...
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