A Room Of Your Own

2018-06-202021-10-29

Dear Teacher-writers: the idea that you’ll have more time to write in the summer is a myth. Let’s face it.

A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration, On writing

I often tell people that part of why I teach is so I can spend my summer writing. I don’t mean to lie. Before I became a teacher, I thought ... Read more

2018-05-272021-10-29

Some writing advice and some inspiration for your week to come: Let’s do this!

A Room Of Your Own

How is the writing going? Earlier this year, my best writing buddy and I were struggling to make time to write. Both teachers, the school year—and it was clearly going ... Read more

2018-04-182021-10-29

Make a plan. Write it down.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Still here! Still doing the work! Because I took on some extra responsibility in my doing job, it’s been enough this school year to find time to write, let alone ... Read more

2018-02-072021-10-29

I’m still here, making time.

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.

What? The theme of this blog is how to make time. In spite of all of the obligations we face as writers who also work full time, raise children, love ... Read more

2018-01-012021-10-29

I was a spider muse.

A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration, On writing

I was a spider muse? A dream catcher? A story weaver? I can’t recall, actually. I know it was Halloween and I had invented my own costume. The idea came ... Read more

2017-10-022021-10-29

This morning I misplaced an entire folder of work. Here’s what I realized.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

If you told me one day I’d be looking for a file on my computer I’d misplaced–a novel draft–and, unable to find it, I would shrug and think well I ... Read more

2017-03-202021-10-29

Dear Procrastination, (Part 2)

A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration, Letters

Dear Procrastination, I’ve written to you before, but you didn’t reply. You look at me the way my grandmother used to when I asked a stupid question. I get it, ... Read more

2017-03-062021-10-29

What are you doing this week to make time? Me? I’m willing to change.

A Room Of Your Own, On writing

Most weekday mornings I wake at four AM and get to work. I’ve even gotten better at writing on weekends, which I explained in an earlier post–to my surprise–proves harder ... Read more

2017-02-132021-10-29

Staring is necessary.

A Room Of Your Own, Memoir, On writing

My IB students are reading The Things They Carried now and just finished The Great Gatsby. The order in which you teach books brings to light different aspects of them. ... Read more

2017-02-072021-10-29

It is called a mobile, after all.

Be here now., Goals, Inspiration, On writing

We had an unexpected dumping of snow in Olympia that afforded me a Monday snow day yesterday. This allowed me to easily and leisurely meet my word count for the ... Read more