3 Personal Benefits of Writing a Novel

I’ve written four novels now (if you include that terrible teen-becomes-werewolf novel I wrote in high school for a contest but never published) and I suppose that might make me somewhat of an authority to someone who is thinking about sitting down at a computer or legal pad to write a novel. I’m in the

Writing As Therapy

Today my students started reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman‘s The Yellow Wallpaper, an early feminist story about a woman who is not allowed to write because it might upset her “delicate condition”.  This started me thinking about what writing means to me beyond the overall joy of seeing my ideas and crazy plot lines taking on a