Meg Dowell

I’ll Be Honest About My Writing Struggles (If You Will, Too)

The truth: I almost stopped writing my novel last week. More truth: things never turn out…

If we only wrote for ourselves, would we write more often? If we didn’t worry about…

Last week, I figured out how my trilogy is going to end. As it often happens…

The train that carries your ideas from the realm of thought into physical words is easily…

Writers learn to refine their skills in a lot of different ways, and the most successful…

Well, darn it. It looks like you’ve succumbed to your pesky procrastination habit again. It’s April…

There is a reason the best creative writing instructors form peer review groups. A student joins…

I recently applied for a part-time job proofreading academic papers. It would not help me pay…

A well-deserved, crunchy and delicious pizza. Learning the proper way to edit is almost as challenging…

Everyone likes stories. Especially stories about themselves. This is part of being a healthy human being.…