“Resistance is not about laziness, lack of will power, or the failure of intellect and imagination.”

Instead, it’s about neurology and psychology, Rosanne Bane argues in her book about the resistance that nearly all writers experience at some point. She explains what happens in our brains when we have trouble writing. As a writing teacher, I have been experimenting with ways to support the writing process … Read More

“Your job is to find what the world is trying to be.”

Stafford2JPGThis is the last line from the poem “Vocation” by one of my favorite poets, William Stafford. He was an advocate of the process of discovery. In Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, he writes, “A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who … Read More