Top Tips for Beating a Writing Slump
Why We Get Stuck—and What It Really Means Slumps happen. I’ve seen them strike new writers, MFA graduates, and published […]
Take Control of Your Writing: Organize Structure and Finish Your Work
Beat Sheet Workshops and 1:1 Coaching offer a simple, powerful way to strengthen your story structure. Whether you’re outlining your first novel or polishing your screenplay, you’ll get practical tools, expert guidance, and support tailored to your goals. No formulas. No fluff. Just a better way to write your story—your way.
It Started with the Tahini
He watches me on the stairs. He counts my pills. He follows me around the house. Ever since last May, […]
A Different Muscle
We all have certain gifts. Mine is the ability to read a story and immediately recognize the underlying structure. It’s in my DNA. After one read, I can provide a writer with the structural fixes they need to tell their story. This has paid the bills for a long time, with jobs as a reader, then developer and producer.
Euphoria
In the past few months, I’d gotten dizzy and trembly. I couldn’t do Tree Pose at yoga anymore. I fell on the escalator at the airport and blamed the new rolling bag.
Word People
My younger brothers and sisters excelled in sports. Competitive swimming. Gymnastics. Hockey. Anything physical, they jumped on it. Me? Not so much.
How to Break In to Showbiz
I wrote this piece for Writer’s Digest in Script magazine in March 2003. Twenty years ago! A small and select group of […]
What Writers Can Learn from Prince Harry
Writing a memoir is scary. Many of my clients fear what their friends will think. What their relatives will think. The critics! The recent firestorm of scorn speaks for itself.
Merry Merry
My mother wrote the poem the above stanza is taken from years ago, when I was a kid. She told me when, but I don’t remember exactly. “Trey” is my family nickname.
Click Around
Three years ago, I hired a website designer because I’m not tech savvy and I couldn’t possibly do it myself. Paula was brilliant. She set up this blog. The newsletter. My store. I wondered how she learned all this stuff.