Focused Writing Time
by Ann McCauley If we seriously want to write, we need to have tunnel vision to focus on our projects. There is simply no substitute for hard work. And don’t…
Come Fly on Song and Word
by Deborah Sarbin Baz Luhrman’s new film Elvis features the star and his band singing the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” before they begin a performance--apt melding of the sacred and…
Writing Memoirs with Nancy McCabe
I initially started writing my memoir Can This Marriage Be Saved?, about my youthful, ill-advised, ill-fated marriage, to make sense of my life. Sometimes when people asked me what I…
A Few Words About Writing
by Ken Raybuck Watershed Books is a wonderful and magical place located conveniently in downtown Brookville, PA, my hometown. I am not kidding when I say that. It is certainly…
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A Notebook is a Writer’s Best Friend
Michael Dittman On Halloween’s Eve 2018, I watched as workers felled a giant oak across the street from my house. When I moved to this small city outside of Pittsburgh,…
On Hemingway
by David Drayer Have you ever heard of Ernest Hemingway? Of course, you have! Everybody knows Hemingway. Like Shakespeare, even if you’ve never read him, you know him. Which is…
Connecting with Others
by Lynn Groce “So today was a rough day. Not a sit down on the floor and cry day, but it was edgy in certain spots.” And if I am…
Unwelcome
A poem by Debbie Allen Unwelcome By Debbie Allen Unabashed, she births her brood in pitch black handmade subterrane. Their home’s a sphere of soft-chewn pulpwood, fibered glass, and paper…
A Noble Story: Reviewed
A Noble Story by David Drayer Reviewed by Patricia Thrushart Those of us who never had the moxie to ride motorcycles usually see them as an iconic representation of freedom,…
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On Writing My Poem, “Rickett’s Glenn”
Octavia Knight Rickett’s Glenn differs from all my other poetry in so many ways. Firstly, it was written in a completely different headspace, provided by a new setting, free from…