As a creativity challenge, I recently signed up for THE FICTION PROJECT, sponsored by The Art House Co-op. Registrants (before Feb) will be mailed a Moleskine sketchbook in which to tell and show a story using words and art, based on a surprise random...

Thanks to the twitterverse, I was turned on to this video by author John Irving when asked about the future of the book: The anxieties presently circulating about the marketplace for fiction certainly are causing a lot of changes in the publishing...

National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) launched today, sending millions of people "with a book in them" to the keyboard in an attempt to churn out a rough novel-length manuscript (minimum of 50,000 words to 'count') by the end of November. ...

The slides for my "Teaching and Learning" presentation today on Improv and Teaching are here on google docs: Whose Class Is It Anyway? For related topics (including a two-part review of Impro by Keith Johnstone, click the improv tag below.

I watched this video this morning, as part of my preparation for a course in "The Teaching of Popular Fiction & Writing" next Spring. I liked the level of advocacy here for educational use of pop culture material in the classroom, as well as the...