
The only sanity is a cup of tea.
- Gwendolyn Brooks, “Boy Breaking Glass”
Book Review: This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Book review: This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
Book Review: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Book Review: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
May Myth Buster 4: “One day, I’ll be a writer that doesn’t need help”
May Myth Buster 4: “One day, I’ll be a writer that doesn’t need help”
May Myth Buster 3: “Feedback = You Are a Bad Writer”
May Myth Buster: What does feedback mean?
May Myth Buster 2: “Write What You Know”
Have you ever been told to ‘write what you know?’ Yeah, don’t.
May Myth Buster 1: “I am a slow writer”
Do you think of yourself as a slow writer? Bust this myth!
Lessons from Public Writing
Interested in public writing for magazines, newspapers, and internet publications? Read on!
What I Have Learned From Being A Poet
Unleash your inner poet for your writing! No, but for real.
Book Review: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
Beautifully written book, elegant in its vision, and incredible in its pacing. And, this editor had some questions.
How to Revise an Article, a personal journey, part 6
What happens when you don’t find new information and what does that mean for you as a writer?
Book Review: Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
What about this pesky thing we call craft?
How to Revise an Article, a personal journey, part 5
What happens when you don’t find new information and what does that mean for you as a writer?
How to Revise an Article, a personal journey, part 4
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. None of your writing is ever wasted.
Book Review: They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
Book review of They Say/I Say by Graff & Birkenstein, useful for classroom and your own revision!
Book Review: Tahira in Bloom by Farah Heron
Book Review of Tahira in Bloom by Farah Heron, with an attention toward how she handles race, cyber bullying, and teenage angst
How to Revise an Article, a personal journey, part 3
Still revising this article… what about new sources?

In case you’re wondering, this is what I really look like when I read people’s work: glasses on, hair pulled back, comfy clothes, and a cup of tea.