May 7, 2025
AWE Professor Bill Yazbec on Why Writing Never Ends
Professor Yazbec spends his workdays planning lessons and teaching, yet even during his personal time, he continues to respond to questions and concerns while balancing family and personal demands. If that isn’t enough, Yazbec is currently working on multiple manuscripts. The Land of Nod, which is about two-thirds drafted, is about where kids go when they dream. Another fiction story, which is about half drafted, is about a 225-year-old man who is still alive in 2072 due to a time-space anomaly.
Additionally, in 2016, Professor Yazbec published Charlie’s Bequest (CreateSpace). It’s a story about a man whose estranged best friend, a single dad named Charlie, has recently passed. In his will, Charlie asks his best friend to take his daughter on a road trip to meet the most influential women from Charlie’s life, helping her navigate her grief. Yazbec is so dedicated to his students that we may overlook his remarkable abilities in his own writing.
—Tiffany Jablonowski, Co-Editor-in-Chief