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2016-09-172021-10-29

Making time, people. Are you?

“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

2016-07-202021-10-29

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

2016-07-042021-10-29

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

2016-06-302021-10-29

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

2016-06-222021-10-29

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

2016-03-062021-10-29

I grow old… I grow old…

Memoir

How can 42 be the answer to the ultimate question regarding life, the universe, and everything when it’s so damn old? Seriously, my face has actually begun to slide away ... Read more

2015-11-172021-10-29

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

2015-10-132021-10-29

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

2015-01-142021-10-29

Zen Accident

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., On writing

I began writing poetry at fourteen or fifteen, some terrible lost and vulnerable age. I wrote reams of poems about how profoundly I didn’t understand anything, using juxtaposed words like ... Read more

2014-05-302021-10-29

Dear Present Moment,

A Room Of Your Own, Be here now., Letters

Dear Present Moment, The click of keys. The ponderous pause. The long-distance stare. Alert, alive, creating. The problems to solve are diverse, complex, and many and I must be some ... Read more