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
On writing
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
Don’t push it. That’s my advice this week. Happy writing!
A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Goals, On writing
Much better this week. Not perfect, but better. I wrote six of seven days. Slowly, but that’s my pace right now. I mostly got to bed by nine on the ... Read more
Duh. Sleep. How could I neglect that?
A Room Of Your Own, Goals, Memoir, On writing
Except for Friday when I needed to wake early to be on a bus to a Speech Tournament by six, I woke at four and wrote every morning last week. ... Read more
And so it’s a new writing year.
A Room Of Your Own, Goals, Inspiration, On writing
I updated my daily writing log template to better suit my needs, tore out all the pages logged in 2016, and tossed them in the recycling bin. I made a ... Read more
Making time, people. Are you?
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Chris ... Read more
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
Review: An Atlas of the Difficult World
On writing
An Atlas of the Difficult World by Adrienne Rich My rating: 5 of 5 stars An Atlas of the Difficult World delivers, as Rich’s collections always do. Reading her work ... 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