by Tasha Seegmiller Last month, I attended my first residency for an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. While there was some trepidation about going back to school at 40, and a bit about how the workload is all going to fit into my life, the main nervousness was surrounding how the instructors and members […]

Angela Ackerman shares a tool for taking your story's cast of characters to the next level. Building twice the character in half the time? Yes, please!

by Margie Lawson Don’t give readers a reason to take a mini-vacation from your page. That’s what happens when readers come across clichéd phrases or sentences they’ve read before. They know what’s coming. Their brain takes a break from your story. And for that fraction of a second they are sucked into the muck of […]

In this Valentine's Day season, Jenny Hansen gives practical advice on how to stay in love with your writing.

Definite Limits, Approximate Limits, Infinite Limits, and No Limits for Writers by Fae Rowen I have to admit that I giggled when I decided to write about limits. I mean, how can a calculus teacher not be excited about getting to blog about limits? No worries, you won't be getting a math lesson from me today. […]