Category: Columns

WRITING LIFE: The Writing Instructor Trio: Confidant, Coach & Critic by Olga Katsovskiy

I don’t think instructors talk enough about the emotional toll it takes, how hard it is to juggle and hold up all those voices on the table.

when a powerful message appears by way of a potent detail, you must not push it away. You must listen.

Connecting people through self-expression is something I care deeply about.

I admire writers who have the stamina to spend daily disciplined hours on their writing. That’s not me.

Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.

A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.

Music can be closely tied to our memories, and this can be a boon when we write about our past experiences.

It may seem old-fashioned these days, but my daily writing practice revolves around a personal blog.

Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity.

Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them…