The scene comes to me in the middle of the night, of course. The characters from my latest manuscript are playing in my dreams. I pull my computer onto the bed. Glowing light from the screen causes ...

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As a writer, I’ve been frustrated these past two months, lacking inspiration to write anything at all. So I tried a few tactics to help get me going that I want to share with you all. 1. Read, read ...

Although I have been unable to teach in-person writing workshops during the pandemic, my Zoom teachings have been zooming. Almost all of these virtual workshops have been pro-bono, but I have received ...

The University of Iowa is renowned for its excellent writing program, churning out countless award-winning novelists, nonfiction authors, and playwrights from the writers’ workshop. But fan fiction ...

A childhood memory inspired Northbrook resident Geoffrey Charlton-Perrin to write a young adult novel. His vivid imagination moved that incident a century in the future in “2121: The Battle for ...

Evgeny Kissin, who has made a career of performing, was surprised to find himself drawn once more to composing. By Rebecca Schmid For the pianist Evgeny Kissin, it was a love story that provided the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A suburban mother revealed that she was ...