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2017-10-022021-10-29

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

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

2017-06-052021-10-29

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

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

2017-01-232021-10-29

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

2017-01-162021-10-29

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

2017-01-092021-10-29

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

2017-01-022021-10-29

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