When we write fiction based on our lives, is it best to write about events when we are still emotionally raw—or after we’ve had a chance to process and integrate them? I like the “Momma Bear” solution: not too raw,
WRITING ON THE SKIDS
How often have we heard that happiness is an inside job? I believe that writing is an inside job as well. It’s whatever we make it. It can be hard, enervating, and frustrating—or inspired, uplifting, and fulfilling. Like many aspects
KHALED HOSSEINI’S SECRET
We all have our pet cures for writers block, and my favorite is one suggested recently by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. On “Morning Joe” (8/1/13) he said, “I