Author Archives: mabujones

What do you want people to listen for when you read your writing? What do you listen for when someone else is reading? In our everyday lives we listen to each other’s stories and respond by offering a parallel story … Continue reading →

Arriving Someplace Unexpected It’s pretty frequent that before writers read in the workshop, they say, “I didn’t get where I wanted to in my writing.” Sometimes they’re saying they didn’t have enough time to finish what they started. But often … Continue reading →

How False are False Starts? We have all found ourselves staring at a blank page, beginning, beginning again, maybe even beginning once more. Sometimes we write the same line over and over. Sometimes we write ‘nonsense.’ I hear writers in … Continue reading →