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Jamaal May: Full Interview
This page contains a full transcript of my interview with Jamaal May. We did the interview over instant messaging, so what you’re seeing is 99% exact on what was said. (The exceptions are minor typo...
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Write-Brained: The Neuroscience of Writing and Writer’s Block
The Write-Brained Series Hub Page This page provides an outline of what each part of the Write-Brained series will contain. You can bookmark and revisit this page for up-to-date links to each part....
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Writerly Humor: The First Rule of Thesaurus Club
For this week’s writerly humor, I’ve got an image for all you Fight Club fans. Now, I saw a couple version of this image online, but I didn’t like them, so made my own. The idea is not original. The...
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Jamaal May: Interview Highlights
My interview with Jamaal May was jam-packed, as those of you who already read the full interview transcript know. For those who have a bit less time, this post dives into some of the topics we...
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Write Yourself a Love Letter: Dear Rob
This is my example piece for the “Write Yourself a Love Letter” exercise. Feel free to post any questions, comments, or critiques in the comments, below. Write Yourself a Love Letter Dear Rob, Wow!...
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Writing Exercise: Write Yourself a Love Letter
The February commerce-oliday (Valentine’s Day) is upon us, and I’ve got a creative nonfiction exercise for you. This is a wonderfully healthy (though challenging) exercise, especially given how often...
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Writerly Humor: Who Stabbed My Muse?
In this week’s writerly humor, I bring you a wonderful comic about a struggle with one’s muse. (I’m not sure about you, but I can definitely relate.) Forewarning: This comic contains some profanity and...
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[creative nonfiction] Today, I picked up a discarded piece of paper. My curiosity reached for the ink scrawled on the page. I unfolded it and found a letter to God. “I wish I were better,” it started....
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7 Writing-Based Ways to Fund Your Fiction
As good as it feels to see your fiction spreading among the masses, it feels even better to get paid for all the hours you’ve put into it. After all, you have to make a living one way or another. Why...
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How to Touch a Bleeding Dog: Full Text and Analysis
Image courtesy of eple.us. Not originally associated with Rod Kessler’s work. The following is the full text of Rod Kessler’s “How to Touch a Bleeding Dog.” It is a piece of flash fiction that can,...
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Writerly Humor: That’s a Paddlin’
In this week’s writerly humor comes to you from Grammarly. I spent a long, long time scrolling through their feed. I recommend you do likewise. Know of a writer’s comic that should be covered in...
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Write-Brained: The Origin of Language & the Ancestral Need for Stories
Part 2: The Origin of Language and the Ancestral Need for Stories In the upcoming entries of my Write-Brained series, I’m going to dive into the question of how the different parts of our brain...
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere on the Internet….
Much of the content I write isn’t posted on this blog. To give you the chance to see all the other work I’ve been doing, I wanted to create this post as an ongoing compilation of my off-site content....
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Writerly Humor: Punography Addiction
Nothing wrong with a little punography to brighten your day, right? This collection of terrible puns has been making its way around the social media sphere for a few weeks now. Original...
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Justification Bias and the Responsibility of the Writer
It’s a strange experience to lecture students on why one of my own poems fails. It’s bizarre to spend so much energy convincing readers that they’re right and I’m wrong. But that’s how I spent my...
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Imaginary Colors and … Are Writers Neanderthals?
Go to the Write-Brained hub page. Go to “Part 2: The Origin of Language and the Need for Stories” Write-Brained: Part 2.5 There were numerous cuts from my Write-Brained post about the origin of...
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Writerly Humor: Fore Years of Collej
This one is just a little too true to be entirely funny. Some of you may be aware that one of my life goals is to revolutionize composition education. This isn’t just because I’d like a revolution to...
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Spotlight: Melanie Rae Thon [Poet/Writer]
I had the pleasure of attending a reading, workshop, and dinner with writer Melanie Rae Thon early last week. While I will go into the details of those events in a separate entry, I want to take this...
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What does dying feel like?
(This entry is not finely tuned or heavily edited. Just a few things I’m thinking about that I couldn’t seem to stop thinking about until they were written down.) “Each heart beat is death’s punctual...
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Writerly Humor: No Love for Grammar Cacti
I have a couple great images to share with you this week. Let’s start with the standard, writerly comic. Image Courtesy of Jesse Tahirali I also found another image that I love. It’s originally from...
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