Good plans invite challenges to them, but if you've got some structure to fall back on, accomplishing your goals is still doable.

No one wants their writing to be littered with tired phrases, but if you can pick up that trash and use it, as a writer, you should. What's your favorite cliché?

If you're an artist with a "real job," what advice for creative time has helped you accomplish your goals?

How will you put 2020 behind you? Maybe you should write about--honestly and with all your emotions.

Recovery from a life-changing event comes with its own dips and drops and curves. Sixteen years after a stroke I'm still learning this; I think we'll all be dealing with this truth in some way after 2020.

Punching up, not down is good advice for writing humor -- and writing in general.

Feeling hopeless? Look to new writers to see how the landscape is changing for the better.

After the death of a farm cat comes recognition of how lonely farm life is.

Escape. In these days of sheltering in place and self isolating, it is so desired it's become even more of an opiate than usual — and perhaps harder to come by than a drug.

Saunders' new short story is impressive, but.

The goal is to write poems, even bad ones!

Look to nature's patterns to help you establish your own and get through these uncertain days.

A conversation with 20-year-old hoboes on the streets of Chicago makes me think about my own plans.