Category: Philosophy of Writing

• Productive Day

  I feel….well, I feel like I have a connection with you, Constant e-Reader. And so I just wanted to let… Read more.

• Metacognitive Journaling

  Presentation at Towson University Saturday morning….Here’s the Powerpoint for attendees (and others!) 🙂 MWP MetaJournals Read more.

• Why Do(n’t) You Write?

  Last week, while on vacation, I spent one mid-morning watching tv with my younger two children. They channel-surfed between PBS,… Read more.

• Will the Immediacy of Technology Be Our Personal Downfall?

  On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and a few other friends at Harvard created Facebook for the purpose of staying… Read more.

• Does an exercise regimen make us better writers?

  I am in my fifth week of working out more consistently than I have in years, perhaps even a decade.… Read more.

• Using Alternating Points of View in Fiction (CNF as well)

  Today is only the fifth day of summer break, and I cannot remember another summer when I’ve been out of… Read more.

• Let’s not get all emotional, now

  I am quite humbled by the fact that I am 43 and I continue to learn things about myself on… Read more.

• authentic living, authentic writing

  If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these… Read more.

• A Writer’s Day

  By all measures, I had a writer’s day.I woke up early (but not as early as I intended; still, 6… Read more.

• What do you pursue?

  Earlier this month I picked up Shady Grove by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, a 13-track compilation of acoustic folk… Read more.