(Note: I was going to call them damn words in the headline, because sometimes the words feel like they need cursing. But then I censored myself, because this is going out in my newsletter, and I don't want to offend people. Do words like damn offend people? I don't know. You tell me. I wouldn't […]
Every night after dinner, I do a little work and then by 8 PM you'll find me cozied up on the couch beneath my favorite quilt, ready to watch the Olympics. The Winter Olympics are my absolute favorite, so I've been in heaven since they started last week. These athletes inspire me. Ski jumpers, […]
Writing, writing, writing. It's really all we writers want to spend our time doing. Unless we don't. Our can't. Or won't for some reason. And then what we do is worry about the fact that we're not writing. I've been doing free sessions (there's one slot left if you're interested) and mostly what people want […]
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A writer is nothing without ideas. Ideas are so important to our craft that I do a whole class on them. Where do ideas come from? One place they come from is observation. Which means the ability to see is vital to the writer. Here's the deal: we get wrapped up in our stuff really […]
Here's something I forget: We write to figure things out. We write to discover what we know. We write to uncover what we don't know. And yet. We sit down to the page and think we have to be experts. We sit down to write and think it has to come out perfect. We sit […]
Gazing at me may make you feel calmer. Yesterday I told you I had a kick-ass (one can only hope) post on letting go ready for you. Then I got distracted by the need to write about the Sopa Strike. And now here you are and you're reading a post on nerves. What gives? […]
