When Formulas Fail Us

As I continue to work on You Will Not Be Forgotten, each Wednesday I am going to post about something I’ve learned in the process of writing this book. Maybe it will be something about myself or about slavery or about history in general; I’m not sure. One thing I do...

When My Platform Could Crush Me

There’s this tiny jolt that courses through me when I get a new blog comment or see the number “15” in that little, red Facebook box. Every time Twitter tells me I have a new follower, I feel it, too. It’s almost like those tools are saying,...

My Real Writing Is Not Blogging

This week, I’m going to be writing about the ways we – as writers – the way I, as a writer, can sabotage my own work by focusing too much on what isn’t really our work. Sometimes, we focus on other things that seem like writing because we are...