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What I’ve Learned from Lunchtime Creative Writing Workshops

About a month ago, one of my colleagues approached me and asked if I would be interested in having an informal creative writing workshop every now and then. Huh, I thought, maybe. I floated the idea by the other four writers in our technical writing group, and it turns out everyone was interested in participating Continue Reading »

My First Guest Post — And Best Writing Tip

I wrote a guest post at Poewar.com titled “The Intersection of the Personal and Professional, or, Why My Attempts at Nonfiction Essays in Grad School Bombed.” I described one of most significant things I learned at my nonfiction writing program at Columbia (and in life, actually). I encourage you to check it out, not only because there’s Continue Reading »

“The great new tool for writing a book today is a blog …”

In a recent episode on The Engaging Brand podcast, business coach Anna Farmery interviews Mark Sanborn, author of You don’t need a title to be a leader, on the topic of self-confidence. Farmery says many people have aspirations to write a book, but lack the self-confidence to do it. Sanborn says you can use a Continue Reading »