I’ve returned from snowy Boston and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. It was a mixed bag for me. There were a couple of sessions that were really solid, and I met a handful of interesting editors on the Bookfair floor that I may follow up with at some point. I also attended […]
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3 Steps For Creative Writers to Tell it Slant
December 10, 2012 
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Who’s up for a little creative insight from Emily Dickinson? Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind When I started my […]
Read moreCreativity Tweets of the Week – November 17, 2012
November 17, 2012 11 Comments
Don’t worry, U.S. readers, you’ll still have time to get the turkey for Thursday even if you take the time to read the posts I’m linking to on creativity and writing in my latest Creativity Tweets of the Week. (For my many readers outside the U.S., do you celebrate holidays that seem to exist for […]
Read moreWhat are the Top 50 Blogs for Authors?
September 28, 2012 30 Comments
The Artist’s Road turns two years old next month, and I’ve received some pretty fishy emails during this run, such as people wanting to pay me to run their blog posts. I always decline; my readers aren’t for sale. Yesterday I was told I was named a Top 50 Blog for Authors. I was immediately […]
Read moreCreativity Tweets of the Week – 9/14/12
September 14, 2012 10 Comments
It dawned on me that I should collect some of the best links on writing and creativity I tweet during the week and compile them in a single, easy-to-use guide. I thought I’d call it “Creativity Tweets of the Week.” Oh yeah, I used to do this pretty regularly, didn’t I? Here at the Artist’s […]
Read moreGuest Post: Fear Fuels Fiction
July 13, 2012 13 Comments
Today I’m honored to have as a guest blogger PJ Reece, author and writing craft guru. I first discovered PJ through his comments here on The Artist’s Road, which stood out even among the thought-provoking and insightful ones this blog somehow attracts. He is the author of the recently published free e-book Story Structure to […]
Read moreAWP Nugget: Selling Out Everyone You Love (in Brevity)
March 1, 2012 7 Comments
AWP, CHICAGO: Does a writer of memoir–or even a fiction writer painting true stories in camouflage–invariably sell out friends and loved ones? Five nonfiction writers wrestled with that topic here at the first day of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference. I summarized the panel for the Brevity blog; you can find […]
Read moreGuest Post: Write Yourself a Bad Review
January 24, 2012 34 Comments
Today I’m honored to provide a guest post by author and writing mentor K.M. Weiland, whose blog Wordplay also was named a Top 10 Blog for Writers for 2011-2012. Her bio is below the post. ———————————————————————————————————————– We all hate the critic in our heads. You know the one—talks with a nasal British accent, uses words […]
Read moreCreativity Tweets of the Week — 9/16/11
September 16, 2011 23 Comments
Mr. Bacon accompanied me this morning when I covered President Obama at a bill signing ceremony for one of my freelance clients. The bugger kept inserting himself into every photo I took. Fortunately the many Secret Service agents present did not consider this bendable children’s toy a threat. Not sure how he’d hold up in […]
Read morePutting Creatives in a Box
September 13, 2011 17 Comments
Left-brain, right-brain. Introvert, extrovert. Soloist, collaborator. The literature on creativity is rife with categories. Call me allergic to categorization, after spending the last quarter-century resisting that fate here in Washington, D.C., where it’s assumed everyone has some sort of label that defines you. (Sorry, I don’t.) I interviewed several dozen creatives on a cross-country U.S. […]
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