Dear Imagination Tree,
Letters
Dear Imagination Tree, Half way into a ten mile run, half way up a doozy of a hill, you shifted my perspective the instant my brain received the sight of ... Read more
A Room of Your Own: Boundaries
On writing
Let the people you live with know when you are sitting down to write. Tell them that for an hour or two or a page or a word count or ... Read more
Dear Paper and Pen,
Letters
Dear Pen and Paper, I bought a manual typewriter from a junk shop downtown Aberdeen and typed my first short story on it. I was eighteen. I didn’t own a ... Read more
The Review I Promised You: The Chronology of Water
Book Reviews!
The reading didn’t happen. I went to my first Gray Skies Reading Series with a marked-up copy of The Chronology of Water in hand only to find that there had ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Pick A Fight
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
You are a writer. Just consider it. There is nothing that can get get you in the mood for sweeping or writing like a good fight. I don’t care what ... Read more
Dear Adulthood,
Letters
Dear Adulthood, Why did I not hold you off a while longer? I used to skip classes to spend hours penning ideas into notebooks–black coffee, toasted bagel to fuel my ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Don’t Put The Groceries Away
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
It started with some wild honeysuckle on my way home from writer’s group. A deep red like I’d never seen growing right there at the edge of the parking lot. ... Read more
Sunday Book Review…Well, sort of…
Book Reviews!, On writing
The book I want to review is The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, but I haven’t finished it yet. I know I want to write a review on this ... Read more
Dear Premature Feedback,
Letters
Dear Premature Feedback, I knew the story wasn’t finished. It stank, in fact, in at least five places. The bones were there, but not the flesh. The ending dropped like ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Reward Yourself
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
Disregard the myth that the writing should be its own reward. You don’t have that kind of time. You’ve been working at writing since your teens and you have gotten ... Read more