A Liturgy for Beginning an Artistic Work
Happy New Year, dear friends. Here is a liturgy for all the beautiful things you will bring into being this year—both works of art and...
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Jun 10, 2019
The Habit Podcast, Episode 3: Jennifer Trafton
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. Seeing as writing has everything to...
Jun 6, 2019
The Habit Podcast, Episode 2: Pete Peterson
The Habit Podcast is a series of conversations with writers about writing, hosted by Jonathan Rogers. Seeing as writing has everything to...
Feb 6, 2019
Down with the Grammar Bullies: Rebecca Reynolds Interviews Jonathan Rogers
Jonathan Rogers was one of my favorite writers long before I received his writing help through an early online class. When looking for a...
Jan 25, 2019
Free Online Course with Jennifer Trafton
Jennifer Trafton just launched a free online course for readers of Henry and the Chalk Dragon who want to use Henry’s story as a...
Jan 17, 2019
Field Notes for Writers
Writing is the act of sitting alone and trying to connect with other people, some of whom may not even be born yet. By necessity, writing...
Jan 10, 2019
Talk to Strangers—Everybody Has a Story
In a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast, producer Latif Nasser shares some of his techniques for finding stories to research and...
Jan 1, 2019
Wherein an Anthropomorphic Tree Upends Me
My husband and I were playing catch-up with the rest of the world, sitting down to watch Guardians of the Galaxy a few years after...
Dec 6, 2018
A Spare Oom Of My Own
Of the six of bedrooms I can remember from my childhood, only two were completely my own, and the time I lived in both of them was less...
Oct 12, 2018
An Interview with Leif Enger about Virgil Wander
A few years ago, Leif Enger came to speak at Hutchmoot, the annual Rabbit Room conference. That year, he and I had both gone through...
Sep 20, 2018
Gamble, Gambol, Ham, and Gambrel: On Inefficiency
The great thing about Google is that it takes you straight to the information you want to find (or, in any case, straight to the...
Sep 6, 2018
Frankenstein: The Scary Part
Today we begin the closing weekend of Frankenstein with five final performances. It’s been a ton of fun to watch this show get to its...
Aug 23, 2018
Old English and a New Cuss Word: On Word Choice
Think of every barnyard animal you know. Cow. Pig. Chicken. Sheep. Horse. Duck. Goose. Every one of those words derives from Old...
Aug 15, 2018
Spontaneous Human Combustion—What a Stroke of Luck!
When I was a boy, I read a comic book about which I remember only one scene: the protagonists are being menaced by a bad guy with a gun....
Aug 6, 2018
Let the Children Play
In an early chapter of Henry and the Chalk Dragon, La Muncha Elementary School receives a visit from two mysterious people whom Henry...
Jul 24, 2018
The Eye Is an Organ of Judgment: Showing and Telling
I often tell people that Flannery O’Connor once wrote “the eye is an organ of judgment.” Turns out, she never wrote that. When I typed...
Jun 15, 2018
You Are Not Your Work: On Receiving (and Ignoring) Feedback
Every time I start a new online class, I send my students an introductory email that includes the following “Word About Feedback”: I am...
Jun 6, 2018
On Not Being the Smartest Person in the Room
In a recent interview with Terri Gross, the writer David Sedaris remarked, “I’m rarely the smartest person in the room. I have other...
May 31, 2018
Flipping The Switch: From Consumer To Producer
“If you want to be a writer, be a reader.” This may be the most commonly-offered writing advice of all. And it’s good advice as far as it...
May 30, 2018
Behind the Song: “All Things Together”
This whole thing—and by that I mean all of creation, from the outermost galaxies to my kitchen table—swirls around a Jewish man from the...
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