Dear Letter In The Mail,
Letters
Dear Letter In The Mail, I look for you every day, though at times you have stayed away for years. I have put bundles at a time of my own ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Only Write
A Room Of Your Own
I’m a planner. Planning anything comes easy to me: a backpacking trip, a date night, a novel, even this blog. Always in the execution is when doubt, that mental bully, ... Read more
Dear Procrastination
Letters
Dear Procrastination, Let’s get real. Writing is hard. I’ve never done anything harder. Or more rewarding. But it’s the hard part that makes me turn to you, old pal. If ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Write one sentence
A Room Of Your Own
The end of a school brings a flood of emotion. Woo-hoo! Summer-time–Cooking outside–Sleeping in–Reading whatever I want.I’ve started three lists of all the marvelous ways I’m going to spend my ... Read more
On Writing by Stephen King
Book Reviews!
The only part I didn’t like? The very ending. And that’s my fault. It makes me uncomfortable when people get too mushy and the very ending was definitely a syrupy ... Read more
“Bird by Bird” – Sunday Book Review
Book Reviews!
“Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by Anne Lamott “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Commit To One Work
A Room Of Your Own
After I’d told yet another story of my struggle to decide just what I should be working on, Carrie (friend; colleague; fellow writer) put it simply: “Everything’s back on the ... Read more
Dear Solitude,
Letters
Dear Solitude, You are sometimes hard to come by anymore in my beautiful, busy, love-drenched life, but without you, shadows pool in my eyes and I struggle to see or ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Don’t Hesitate
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems ... Read more
Reading Like A Writer
Book Reviews!
I am lucky enough to be a part of a book group for writers and occasionally we choose a book on craft to read alongside whatever novels we are reading. ... Read more