Monica Bhide, Lynn Isenberg & Bill Squier Reflect on When Enough is Enough
Some time back I asked three writers of different "genres" to answer this: When is enough enough in a creative work? Monica Bhide (food writer, author of Modern Spice), Lynn Isenberg (screenwriter, author of The Funeral Planner) and Bill Squier (musical theater writer, the lyrical half of Lodin & Squier) tell how they know. I've excerpted answers from their full interviews (also viewable here--clickable in the left sidebar).How do you know when enough is enough?Monica: When the reader reading my essay or my chapter

Where are you going to end up?
Alphabet Soup with Barbara Bietz Award-winning author Barbara Bietz offers basic writing tools and techniques to support and nourish the new or timid writer "O is for Outline" Ideas have been percolating in your brain. You’ve amassed a pile of story notes on scraps of paper. The main character is taking shape in the deep recesses of your imagination. What next? Do you plop in your chair and type away as your muse sprinkles you with magical dust? That might work for some, but in most cases you’ll

Six Writers Take on Back to School
In honor of back to school I asked five of the writers I greatly admire to weigh in. With a very loose hat tip to the wonderful Raymond Carver--I wanted to know what these writers talk about when they talk about back to school. So here goes...(I've posted pictures of them from when they were kids. (Click on their links to see how cute they still are). I was curious