When it comes to editing advice, nothing has helped me more than Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I blindly bought a second-hand copy in 1998 and burned through two highlighters before giving up—all of
Writing Through Sand
Sometimes life just happens. That’s an understatement. I recently went through a period when I should’ve been working hard on a novel due for my agent—and I did, honest!—but business concerns and dealing with the aftermath of my father’s unexpected
Controlled Burn
I do a lot of off-road mountain biking, albeit very slowly. I have too much respect for how easy it is to break a bone to go flying off jumps and getting horizontal on the berm. But a two hour
Mirror, Mirror
It’s always tricky to self-diagnose a disorder, especially when there’s not a definitive medical test for it. For my raging case of prosopagnosia (“face blindness”), anecdotal evidence was more than sufficient. I easily confuse characters in movies, even if they’re