Ready to write?
A Room Of Your Own, Inspiration
It’s the infamous hump day in my writing week and I felt it on my morning run. I had to shuffle my way up every hill one tiny step at ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own
On patience in revision.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
I’ve been thinking about the importance of patience this morning, how it is so necessary, but also something that has to be learned. Why, you ask, was I thinking about ... Read more
Yep. It’s a first draft, all right.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
This week, I finished up another draft of a manuscript that is in nearing the publishing phase of the editing process, then finished a read-through of a first draft of ... Read more
Learning from a confidence crash: Reflections from a writing retreat.
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now.
I started this blog as a way to keep myself writing. It was the same kind of desperate attempt to build good habits that causes people to talk their significants ... Read more
One true sentence? Considering Hemingway.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
My seniors are reading Hemingway, so, of course, I am rereading him too. And thinking about him and his oft-quoted advice to writers. Just one true sentence? The truest sentence ... Read more
What it took.
A Room Of Your Own, Movement
I woke at four, made coffee, walked the dogs. I sat down to write a little bit later than usual, but only about five minutes. But five minutes turned to ... Read more
One day spent chaperoning debate nerds. Two insights about writing fiction.
A Room Of Your Own, Goals, On writing
I say nerds admiringly. After all, I was one of them back in highschool when I regularly skipped other classes to work on my debate cases. Am one of them, ... Read more
Reflections on Nanowrimo at the midpoint, plus the not-so-sexy-after-all struggle
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
Yesterday morning I made it to 25,800 words on my Nanowrimo novel. My writing morning went as usual, with one significant difference. My alarm blared Bryan Adams “I’m Gonna Run ... Read more
A reminder to Make Time.
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
Hello writer friends!By this time of year I’ve normally posted an anxiety fueled post about the start of the school year, the subtext of which is always HOW IN THE ... Read more
Washing the dishes
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing
Just like the themes we are threading in our stories, these topics about the creative life resurface again and again. I’ve written many times before about focus, about staying in ... Read more