I’m pleased to announce I have the honor of creating a series of video fiction workshops for The Community Writing Center, which you can view free of charge. The link to register is here (select “Fiction Workshop Series”) and the viewing link will be emailed to you. There are three workshops, each about 90 minutes long, and the first one is on Characterization. If you can’t view the live stream at the stated days and times, you will be able to view the archived version on your own time.

Have fun writing!

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it till the world gives them more credit: my students are awesome.

Every week at our creative writing group meeting, one or more of them blow me away with their compassion, creativity, writing ability, and overall heart. Because I believe the world can never contain too much ambient teen optimism, here you go:

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