The Thousand Lives of John Zeleznik

I was recently watching a vlog featuring a prominent middle grade writer and an renown literary agent where they were talking about the stat...

For the last three years I've been teaching 10th grade. I love it. While I do miss teaching seniors and the troubles they run into, I...

This week I got five rejections. Not the worst week I've ever had, but it certainly felt like it. Three of the rejections were for the n...

I was on quite a blog tear to start the year then I just sort of petered out. I have some ideas for posts but none came together the way I w...

 Something made me decide to listen to Brandon Sanderson's lecture series on YouTube. I don't know why, but I thought that I'm s...

 I just finished reading a book titled  Seven Short Sentences About Writing  by Verlyn Klinkenborg and was struck by it. An interesting litt...

It's snowing in Syracuse today. This is not news. Actually, it's pretty standard for January. I always get a little melancholic when...