My secret weapon for writing

Recently a co-worker asked me in the hallway, “So I wanna write a book. I’ve got this idea. Maybe sometime we can sit down and you could give me, like, your main piece of advice?” I surprised myself at how quickly I gave him an answer, right there in the hallway. But...

My Favorite Writing Teacher.

Most poetry sucks. Well, most everything sucks when you get right down to it; most advertising, most TV shows, most novels. But poetry? Ugh! If I see one more impenetrable little block of word salad in the New Yorker, I’m gonna need someone to hold my hair while I...