[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Ginger Pinholster is a writer and fellow graduate of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. You can connect with her on...

Belinda Nicoll is the author of the memoir, Out of Sync, as well as a writing and life coach. (You can read an earlier interview I did...

Earlier today I kicked off my December guest blog blizzard which will focus on Dorothy Parker’s short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. In...

In February of 2010, I posted a brief summary and discussion of Dorothy Parker’s classic short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. When I...

When a man and woman make the decision to take a cross-country, multi-month trip with their family of six, a certain level of “coziness”...

No. I’ve not started writing hip-hop lyrics. I did, however, spend most of this week dealing with some computer issues. Thankfully, none...

December is here, and it’s a big month for me. Obviously, the holiday season is here, which means lots of Advent activities, followed by...

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This is the (belated) final installment of the series of guest contributions focused on Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to...

Naming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...

I met Kelly Fordon while I was pursuing my MFA. She was working on a novel told from the point of view of a U.S. Congressman’s young...

As I announced yesterday, I am going to spend this week on the blog sharing some words of literary wisdom from some of my wonderful...

Over the next few days (with a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, naturally) I’ve asked some of my favorite writer friends to help out...

One of my Bradenton-Sarasota writer friends, Juli C. Hilliard, recently wrote an article about individuals who want to leave a “Legacy of...

[youtube=http://youtu.be/Shf1pCUVACc] I was asked to be a contributing author to a new anthology, Letters to Me – Conversations With a...

A while back, the good folks over at Find Stuff 2 Read (including faithful reader, Shannon H.) asked if they could post one of my short...

As I mentioned last week, today is the official launch day of a new book, Letters to Me: Conversations With a Younger Self. About...

Don’t get me wrong: I think reading, responding, and critiquing the work of others is important. It was important to me as an...

I was honored to be asked to participate in a new anthology called, Letters to Me. Letters to Me is written by an eclectic collection of...