Word for Words Blog for Writers

I’m reading  A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, by George Saunders, aut...

One of my favorite flying films is Top Gun. I first saw the movie with my brother, Skip, a graduate of Bainbridge Academy and a submariner i...

Last month we said telling a good story requires preparation. While that’s true, telling a good story also takes spontaneity. My dad still m...

My father often said, “Preparation is everything.” He was a custom men’s tailor who each night prepared the next day’s work and each morning...

Some years ago I was working as a marketing communications manager for a small IT company when the handwriting was on the wall for a merger ...

I recently did a seminar on how to prepare a project for publication in today’s volatile climate that offered the unexpected bonus of helpin...

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (RIFF), now in its ninth consecutive year. I’m a community curator...

Novelist and short story writer Connie Keller talks about how shifting gears and headspace toward writing poetry expands the writer’s creati...