Writing Process

Every thousand words, I take a break and watch something. Today, I’m watching You’ve Got Mail. (The first time I saw it was in the theater where Meg Ryan and Greg Kinnear go to the movies in the film.) I did not remember how sad this movie is! Even the happy ending is sad! I […]

Opinion | Notes on ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ – The New York Times

Some feedback from your fiction professor. By Ysabel Yates Ms. Yates is a humor writer in New York City. Santa Claus with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the 1964 Christmas stop-motion animated TV special.NBCU Photo Bank, via Getty Images Source: Opinion | Notes on ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ – The New York Times

Full-Time Writer Here!

As of June 23, I will be retired from teaching, and writing full-time! After a couple of weeks of detox from job stress, and a celebratory trip to Scotland, I’ll return to begin the next chapter with some exciting and ambitious, but doable, plans for a number of books I’ll be completing over the next […]