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 in this, except one, who was already busy with another … more »

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 a contest for the guest post that brings in the … more »

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 blog as a tool to build confidence and write a … more »