Essays On Writing

Why Write?

Art: A Workout For Your Empathy Muscles

The Evolutionary Circle of the Storyteller’s Audience

The Mutable Measure of Writing Success

Writing’s Dead They Say (Long Live Write)

Getting Started:

Do You Want to Write, or Do You Want to be a Writer?

Crippling Advice For Beginning Writers

The One Cure for the One Fear Keeping You From Writing

Chipping Marble (or How I Learned To Write In Art School)

When Should You Stop Calling Yourself An Aspiring Writer?

Mechanics:

So You Want To Write A Cruddy Story

Writing Not To Be Read: The Three Rules of Dialogue Tags

Lost in the Gravity of Graves and Gravy

What Can I Get You? Revealing Character Through Tasty Beverages

Routine:

Can’t Write? Maybe You Need A Ritual

Fire, Writing, and Life’s Well Worn Grooves

Top 1 Secrets To An Artistic Life (#1 Blew Our Minds)

Procrastination:

The Ballad of Easy Procrastinator

Writing Is A Marathon (and I’m Out of Shape)

Writing Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction

CNF Writers Are a Bunch of Dirty Liars (If They’re Doing it Right)

Creative Non-Fiction & the Fine Art of Taming the Bear

Career:

Yes, You Need to Pay Your Writing Dues

Mark Twain Wants You to Write for Free

The 8 Not-So-Secret Secrets to a Writing Career

How To Rack Up A Million Blog Views (But Why Would You Want To?)

Quick Directions To Working Writers’ Highway

The Secret To Eternal Writing Happiness

The Writing Jellyfish

The Trick to Writing Effectively? Controlling Your Emotions

The Two Rules of Writing for Online Publications

Uncategorized:

The Perils Of Creating Accidental Freaks

When You Lose Control and You Got No Soul