Living In Place
Raising a Writer
My middle child is a playwright. If I were a responsible parent, I’d probably discourage her from pursuing a career in the arts, unless she were to go into arts...
Winning at NaNoWriMo
It’s November twenty-seventh, meaning including today there are just four more days to finish the NaNoWriMo challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in one short month....
Progress Report
Rather than wait until New Year’s Eve, when it’s too late to do anything about the year’s unmet goals, I took stock at the end of October. Despite grand ideas of writing a poem a...
The Scientist Writes
Regular Live to Write - Write to Live blogger Deborah Lee Luskin wrote Most Improved Writing Student earlier this month. . Here's a guest post by that student, Daniel Chamovitz,...
Writing Through Grief
My mother died last month. Her death was long anticipated and when it finally came, something of a relief. But losing a parent is one of life’s great transitions, moving the next...
Most Improved Writing Student
In 1982, while a graduate student at Columbia University, I taught Introduction to Freshman Composition, a remedial course for bright but inarticulate young men just entering the...