Recently I had the pleasure of watching Tommy Orange give a reading (remotely) from his beautiful award-winning novel, There There. He read with confidence and ease, his voice full of power and his words strung together with precision and nuance. In between passages, he shared how he’d worked on one chapter for years. He submitted […]
Five Questions with Rahla Xenopoulos
1.) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? As a high school dropout who suffered from severe dyslexia, I never dreamed of writing. It seemed lofty and way out of my grasp. In my late thirties a friend asked me to join her at a writing workshop. I tried explaining to her […]
Break Writers Block With a Few Simple Steps
When writers say they can’t write, they usually mean they’re afraid to write or they just don’t want to. The reasons vary. We may not know where or how to begin a new project. Or our project may have a particular problem, or a lot of problems, we don’t know how to tackle. We may […]