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I’ve been hard at work the past few days trying to focus my ongoing study of alternative story structure into something that looks like a Creative Writing Workshop that other people can use to…

for my co-workers at the Catherine McAuley Center (first draft) Self-care is making time for yoga in the morning.It’s meditation, of course. Just lighting a candle.Self-care is often letting the work wait another minute,although…

(first draft, not edited) I’m grateful to have stumbled upon Jane Alison’s Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative this year. Experiments with structure have been part of my writing process for a…

notes on a structure Standing in the spot I’ve made sacred in the cemetery,where I’ve stopped to pray on so many walks,I take a few breaths,feel the breeze on my skin,look up as a…

Fixated on crescent moon reflectionin a window across the street,I can’t tell the difference between crickets and cicadas,the music that started with a car down the block,and children crying next door. “What are you…

As you may have noticed, I enjoy observing and capturing the process … This morning while working on the syllabus for my Writing Workshop class at Lackawanna this fall, one of the playwriting books…

Most writers I can think of talk about this time … the silence between words, the pause – as necessary to the creative process. Daydreaming is essential. Writers need time to stare off into…

On the latest episode of People Taking Shots at Scranton, we find one of the city’s own golden boys – playwright Stephen Karam – dragging Scranton down while praising Terrence McNally in a The…