Year in Review 2025: A Year of Middle Grounds, Big Leaps, and Quiet Transformations

For the last few years I’ve made a habit of writing a New Year’s “Year in Review” post—a way to remind myself that even when the milestones aren’t the ones I once imagined, the work still matters, the trajectory still curves upward, and the person doing the writing continues to evolve. 2025 was the yearContinueContinue reading “Year in Review 2025: A Year of Middle Grounds, Big Leaps, and Quiet Transformations”

Short Story or Novel: Smart Choices Help You Write What You Intended

At a recent writers workshop I was surprised to hear repeatedly the question, ‘How do you know how long a piece should be?” and almost as equally surprised to hear the answer “You just find out as you are writing.” Now, no doubt, the writers giving those answers were writers who are more experienced thanContinueContinue reading “Short Story or Novel: Smart Choices Help You Write What You Intended”