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Community Creativity: The Poetry of Winter Nights and Holidays

Last night, I hosted my final Community Poetry Night as Cupertino Poet Laureate. I feel honored to have celebrated creativity with an...

Lions and Tigers and Titles... Oh My! - Resources and Tips for Choosing a Title for Your Writing

It's NaNoWriMo and many of us are writing away at new stories and writing projects. If you're anything like me, you start writing because...

Create a NaNoWriMo Book Cover!

It's the eleventh of November. And that means we're almost halfway through NaNoWriMo. No, you didn't read that word wrong and it's not...

Writing exercise: Using Your Real-Life Antagonist

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with an unhappy person. This person is angry at someone else, and I got caught in the...

Poetry Workshop Wonders: List-Definition Poems

Today I had the privilege of spending time in one of my favorite places with my favorite people: a community creativity workshop. This...

My new chapbook, Pixelated Tears, is published!

I'm excited to share that my chapbook, Pixelated Tears, is now available from Prolific Press. Here's the postcard: And here's the press...

Writing Prompt: Using Facebook to Craft Poems (and other types of writing)

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

What to Write When Nothing Comes

Maybe you've been lucky and never drawn a blank when sitting down to write. But if you're like me (and most people), you've sat and...

Writing Prompt: An Exercise in Perspective

One of the best things about being writers is that we get to play with reality. When we craft fiction, poetry, and even creative...