Dear Summer Days, (Letter Series)
Letters
If you click on Letters under categories of past blogs, you’ll see the whole series. This series is a nod to the idea of letter writing, which I love with ... Read more
inspiration
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
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
An invitation to let go and burn, baby, burn.
A Room Of Your Own, Goals
Getting to sleep earlier proved harder than I thought for a few reasons this week. I’ve got a lot crammed into my weekdays and last week was an especially bloated ... 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
What I Read In 2015/Want To Read in 2016
Book Reviews!
I’ve been keeping track of what I’ve been reading since 2009 here on this blog. My goal for 2015 was to read 50 books. I came pretty close at 42, ... Read more
Skipping class
Nostalgia
I’m not sure how it started, exactly. One day I must have been walking to school and instead of turning left toward the tall gray concrete building, climbing the stairs ... Read more
A defense of prompts, an opportunity, and a goldfish
On writing, Prompts
The other day I may have bought a few books at the Half-Priced Books 50% off sale. While the checker was scanning each book (took a while), one book (John ... Read more
A Room Of Our Own: Don’t Always Trust Your Feelings
A Room Of Your Own
A paragraph came without warning. I was reading Great House on the way to a wedding in Seattle. I didn’t even have a notebook to write it down, so I ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Wake Up Early
A Room Of Your Own
A few days ago I was whining to my best friend (also a writer) about how I lack discipline and am not writing consistently. We have this conversation quite often. ... Read more