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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...
Dec 13, 20192 min read


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...
Nov 19, 20193 min read


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...
Nov 11, 20192 min read


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...
Nov 8, 20193 min read


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...
Oct 29, 20192 min read


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...
Oct 17, 20181 min read


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...
Oct 11, 20182 min read


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...
Oct 7, 20182 min read


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...
Oct 5, 20182 min read
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