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
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