I’m not the most coordinated person, so juggling physical objects would be an exercise in futility, and if they were sharp or heavy objects, probably a lot worse. But I’ve also found that juggling all the parts and pieces of my life can be just as hazardous to my health in this semi-post-pandemic time. We…
While trolling through Twitter one day I ran across a post by an Australian songwriter. The songwriter called himself SpaceMarch and he had 252,000 Twitter followers (nice). I didn’t know what I might have in common with someone who writes lyrics, but I began to read his posts. The Brainstorm… and then Nothing I particularly…
Do you have a meter in your head when you evaluate your work? George Saunders does. I can’t recommend enough the entire recent podcast interview between Saunders and Ezra Klein. Do yourself a favor and listen here. If you don’t have a writing guru, you can’t do much better than Saunders, who is easy-going, smart,…
In the Beginning Due to the pandemic, numerous regional writing groups, long accustomed to physically gathering to attend live presentations or reviews, have morphed into online critique groups. Members of an at-large writing group in Utah have been participating in online critique sessions for eight years. When the chapter first began using email to exchange…
Print book sales are up across nearly all formats and age groups. In some cases, the percent of increase is double digits. While juvenile non-fiction sales increased the most (can you say, “home schooling?”), juvenile fiction, YA and adult fiction and non-fiction book sales have also gone up by substantial amounts. While there is a…