Review-A Prayer for Owen Meany
Confession: I am not a subjective reviewer. John Irving was my first teacher at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He was smart and friendly. […]
Living As a Writer
Artists and A.D.D.
Like many (maybe most) artists, I could be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. This doesn’t bother me since I don’t consider ADD a disorder at […]
Creatives and Creators
My Zoe likes Shark Tank on tv so I often watch it with her. This may indicate that my daughter will become a capitalist. I’m […]
The Virtue of a Real Creator
Here are some lines excerpted from Friedrich Nietzsche’s, Thus Spake Zarathustra, on the working of the heart, mind, spirit, and soul of a true creator. If […]
Craft and Inspiration
Last week, I completed draft five of my newest novel, The Answer to Everything. The novel is most likely the final book of my Tom […]
Me, Writer, in Brief
As some folks are no doubt dying to know the story of my writing career. I’m going to attempt a capsule version. Of course I […]
How Many Words, How Many Drafts
A note to a Perelandra College student: About word count etc, let me give an example of what I go through with pretty much every […]
The Key to Good Writing
Like all of us these days, I get too much email. I sign up for something and emails from a dozen purveyors of similar somethings […]
What Keeps Me Writing
A Perelandra College student who, though mighty serious about writing, can’t often make herself sit down and write, wrote and asked me some questions. In […]
Novels Change Us
David Brooks of the New York Times wrote an editorial about racism and classism and what might be done to counter those attitudes. He commented: […]