Category: Posts by WROB Fellows

The idiom “elbow grease” refers to strenuous physical labor, but we all know how laborious writing can sometimes be. The etymology of […]

I’ve read a number of articles about writer’s block over the last couple of years, articles that examine the neurological reasons why we […]

One of my writing practices centers around the art of zoning in and zeroing out. It consists first of putting myself in the […]

Before I ever attempted to write about him, people told me that my father was a character. Smoking a Winston lifted from […]

The air is getting crisper, the evenings are becoming shorter, kids are heading back to school, and I’m about to start my thesis […]

Years ago it occurred to me that all my life there has been a war somewhere on the planet. Whether a big […]

On a Saturday in early May, as my husband and I were driving to the Mass Poetry Festival, my right eye suddenly started […]

In June I traveled to Switzerland with my family. While I was there, I had two unique, unexpected experiences. First, my family […]

I write best in the morning, with a cup of coffee and a single candle burning on my desk. Unless of course […]

Over the years, collaborative writing —usually the domain of academic research and business writing, or an educational tool to give novice writers […]