The importance of place.
On writing
I’m four pages in to chapter two of my new book, a book I’ve outlined, made character sketches for, and even bought markers and big pieces of white paper to ... Read more
writing
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
A Room Of Your Own: Write one sentence
A Room Of Your Own
The end of a school brings a flood of emotion. Woo-hoo! Summer-time–Cooking outside–Sleeping in–Reading whatever I want.I’ve started three lists of all the marvelous ways I’m going to spend my ... Read more
“Bird by Bird” – Sunday Book Review
Book Reviews!
“Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life” by Anne Lamott “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Commit To One Work
A Room Of Your Own
After I’d told yet another story of my struggle to decide just what I should be working on, Carrie (friend; colleague; fellow writer) put it simply: “Everything’s back on the ... Read more
Dear Imagination Tree,
Letters
Dear Imagination Tree, Half way into a ten mile run, half way up a doozy of a hill, you shifted my perspective the instant my brain received the sight of ... Read more
A Room of Your Own: Boundaries
On writing
Let the people you live with know when you are sitting down to write. Tell them that for an hour or two or a page or a word count or ... Read more
Dear Paper and Pen,
Letters
Dear Pen and Paper, I bought a manual typewriter from a junk shop downtown Aberdeen and typed my first short story on it. I was eighteen. I didn’t own a ... Read more
The Review I Promised You: The Chronology of Water
Book Reviews!
The reading didn’t happen. I went to my first Gray Skies Reading Series with a marked-up copy of The Chronology of Water in hand only to find that there had ... Read more
A Room Of Your Own: Pick A Fight
A Room Of Your Own, On writing
You are a writer. Just consider it. There is nothing that can get get you in the mood for sweeping or writing like a good fight. I don’t care what ... Read more