On Writing

This past spring, I had an idea for a story. I've been working on a series of short stories set on the coast of Maine during the summer....

A young friend, a student, asked me if I were still writing. I told her that I was, though I haven't published anything in about a year. Although I published Are You Okay? I refuse to do the vanity press sort of thing. The book is just a convenience for me and my readers. I don't have to paste links to all these magazines' web addresses into emails. And even if readers do take the trouble to track them down, it's often hard to find a specific story. These journals update th

That's the message on a poster I have on the wall of my classroom. I put it up several years ago when I was teaching underclassmen. I...

My mother was an Indiana farm girl. She lived in many places, including Daytona, Florida, New York City, Georgia, and New England, but I...

It isn't easy for me to write. I doubt that I'm the only writer to learn that it can be extremely difficult, especially if you're new to...

I started writing short fiction two years ago, after retiring from teaching. A couple of qualifications here: First, I've written short...