In honor of the fact that Still Waters is now available on Kindle, here is a free chapter, which has never before published online. Hope you enjoy! “Well, I don’t understand what the problem is, that’s all,” Stella complained amiably, leaning up against the back porch. Jenna was kneeling on a pad, pulling weeds from …
It was probably about fifteen years ago that I first started coaching young writers. I still remember their earnest efforts at storytelling, their frustration when they couldn’t quite paint pictures with their words they way they’d wanted to, their elation when it came out right. I remember it well, because it so perfectly mirrored the …
There’s nothing quite as magical as a movies about writers! Silver screen stories that try (and sometimes succeed!) to capture the magic of what it means to be a writer. Some day I’d love to do this as a countdown of my twenty favorites (although then I would have to pick a single favorite, which …
