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Back when William first approached me about guesting on AMV, he offered this as a possible topic:

A guest post on you and your wife and your creative processes (and even how family impacts them). How do you find time to write? What helps you write? Where do your creative processes and ambitions collide/feed off of/interact [...]

So here’s the deal, AMVers. In celebration of National Poetry Month and in conjunction with AMV’s plan to do the same (I’ll try not to step on my co-bloggers toes here; if I do, especially you Wm., sorry in advance), I’m undertaking a month long exploration of Mormon verse. To chase these poets with me [...]

This is the third post in a five or six part series that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. In part two, “In Exchange for the Soul”, I extend the paradoxes of existence more deeply into the realm of literature, exploring how our literary experience with them can become an “intelligent [...]

This is the second post in a five or six part series that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. In part one, I introduce the dissonance between Mormon theology and Mormon culture, pointing specifically to how the artifacts of that culture—particularly our letters—often fail to engage the eternally rich and redemptive ethical [...]

The Tragic Tell of Mormon Morality: Exposing the Achilles’ Heel of Jerry Johnston’s Commodified Theology, or An Ethics of Latter-day Saint Reading—Part I
(The title’s a mouthful, I know.)
This is the first post in a five or six part series (to run on Thursdays) that explores the ethics of Latter-day Saint literature and criticism. Working within [...]

Note: this is the third in a series of posts of ideas for improving/growing/sustaining the field of Mormon narrative arts.
There are plenty of online stores selling Mormon fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. From the various LDS publishers Web sites to Mormon-oriented stores like LDS Living and Latter-day Harvest to national super sellers like Amazon.com.
The [...]

Fires of the Mind was produced in the Margetts Arena Theatre, BYU, in November, 1974. It was a play I hadn’t even heard of until Eric Samuelsen (BYU’s Playwriting professor) suggested it to me as a possibility for a Mormon Theater Anthology I’m editing for Zarahemla Books.

Part Two may be found here. 
When a writer presumes an audience for her work based upon whom she believes readers of similar works to be, she fictionalizes her audience, integrating them into her imaginative effort.  When readers imagine a writer’s life based upon what they understand her work to mean, they fictionalize her right back.