Home again…but still writing

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In A Room Of Your Own, On writing.

So, I’ll be attending the Rainier Writer’s Workshop this August to begin work on my MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction. Thing is, PLU requires proof (signed by a doctor) that you’ve had your MMR. I called my mom, my high school, the county health department in–don’t tell–Grays Harbor, and my childhood pediatrician. Nothing. So, my current doctor took a blood test–a titer–that could identify whether I had the antibodies, thus proving I’d been immunized. The first blood test, he only had them check measles, not mumps and rubella. So, I had another blood test. Now, the second test shows that while I’m immune to measles and rubella, I’m not immune to mumps. So, I have to get an MMR. I have an appointment today at–guess where my doctor sent me–the Safeway pharmacy. At least while I’m at it, I can pick up some groceries, eh? Anyway, I hope to be done with that today, as it is the one thing holding up my registration.
As for writing, I’m getting back to that this morning too. I’m glad I escaped to Ocean Shores so early in the summer. It’s set a tone for a focused, productive summer. 🙂
Particular goals? I’m working on self-publishing some poetry chapbooks, looking for an agent for my novel, and writing some new fiction.
What do you listen to while you’re writing? I listen to all sorts of things or nothing at all, but today I’m listening to jazz.

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Some past posts to keep you making time: 
Adjust your pace accordingly.
It’s about the routine and how you shake up the routine
There are things you will have to give up
See it to achieve it
Washing the dishes
Write slowly
A celebration of the pause
Monday, a run through the driving rain
Zen accident
Get out of your comfort zone

lizshine74

lizshine74

Liz Shine teaches high school English, writes, edits, and coaches other writers from her home in Olympia, WA. When she begins to feel overwhelmed by it all, she simply looks up at Mount Rainier in the distance and gets back to work. If that fails, she heads to the ocean. She is a founding editor at Red Dress Press. Her Substack Make Time is her gift to writers, like her, trying to magic time in this crazy, busy world. All of those posts are cross-posted on the blog here. You can see more of her writing at lizshine.com and find her on Instagram {@lizshine.writer} cooking, traveling, and in other ways seeking moments of awe. She has been an active participant in communities of writers since the early 1990s. She’s learned that two things feel truly purpose-driven in life: writing and coaching other writers. In the in between (because one cannot be driving for a purpose every moment), she enjoys looking for wonder and connection. She is a lifelong yoga student, an enthusiastic walker along streets and trails, and an amateur gardener and vegetarian cook. She lives in Olympia, WA. She believes in the power of practice and has been practicing writing since some time in the early 90s when she became an adult in the rain-soaked city of Aberdeen. Writing began with journaling, as a way to understand a confusing, sometimes violent coming-of-age. She writes mostly fiction, some nonfiction, and poetry, and holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writers Workshop. She is a founding editor at Red Dress Press.