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Book Review | Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life by Rebecca Lawton and Jordan Rosenfeld

August 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Writers tend to work alone, but often find invaluable assistance and guidance from a mentor, coach or critique group. But what if you could have a writing therapist? Someone [...]

Author Interview | Talking Writing with Christopher Moore

June 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Christopher Moore is the author of 17 novels and various other shorter works in the comic fantasy genre. Among his books are Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s [...]

6 Ways You Can Spread Kindness, Hope, and Good Cheer With Just a Pen

November 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

You’re probably familiar with the saying,“The pen is mightier than the sword,” coined by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and for good reason. The idea [...]

A Marriage, Best Left Unturned

February 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

My six-year-old son, Asher, and I walk along the creek bed half a mile from our small yellow house in our suburban neighborhood. He loves it when we fish for leaves and [...]

Sweatpants & Creativity | Family Story Jumpstart Template

December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

When it comes to holiday family gatherings there are so many occasions where we all fall into telling stories about favorite times, or hilarious ones. We sit around the [...]

Giveaway | “All The Write Moves” Book Proposal Course by Anna David

December 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Do you have a book you’ve been wanting to write, but you don’t know how to get started? I know from experience that writing a book proposal can be a daunting [...]

Personal Essays | The Opposite of Failure

November 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

I am 42 years old, and I love being a writer. But I haven’t always done much of it. I wrote short stories as a kid, often with the help of my dad. As a teen, I wrote a [...]

Sweatpants & Books l Slam Poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre’s “A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry”

October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

I put flip flops on in the dark this morning only to realize a few hours later than they don’t match. It’s been one of those days. The ones where you wish you [...]

Sweatpants & Pop Culture | H.P. Lovecraft: the Good, the Bad, and the Eldritch

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

What do Batman, Dungeons & Dragons, Black Sabbath, Evil Dead, Neil Gaiman, and Rick and Morty have in common? Apart from general awesomeness, they share ties to the same [...]

Sweatpants & Soul | Soup Ministry

August 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

I taught myself how to make soup a few years ago. I was well into my 30s and already a mom. I wanted to make soup the way my mother did, rich with herbs and tubers and the [...]