A friend wrote from Mexico last week. She said she was having a hard time letting go of the words she was writing. There were sentences she liked in her essay and she didn’t want to delete them. She suggested this might be something I’d like to write about. And she was right. Letting go […]
(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 […]
When I was the mother of two young children, I would beg babysitting time from friends so that I could write. For awhile, I had a desk stuck in a back hallway in amongst the coats and baseball bats and mittens. I'd take the kids to my my friend's house and sit at the desk […]
I dunno. Sometimes, phrases just pop into my head. I think this is a writer thing, but it may happen to everyone, even civilians. The bad phrases pop in and pop back out again, but the good phrases hang around and bother me untile I do something with them. Last week sometime, the things that […]
I've been at a writing retreat all weekend. It was at Scarritt Bennett, a center in the middle of the labyrinth that hosts programs on diversity, women's empowerment, and spirituality. (That's a photo of the labyrinth at Scarritt Bennett to the right, though I focused more on the blooming Redbud and Dogwood trees when I […]
Yesterday, I wrote part one in this series on things I learned at the Writer's Loft last weekend, and you can read that post right here. In it, I talked about the presentations by Jimmy Carl Harris and Kory Wells. Today it is time to turn attention to Richard Goodman's workshop, "5 Things to Learn […]
The Writer's Loft orientation weekend is over and here's a news flash for you: I survived. Actually, I thrived. It was a wonderful, informative and inspiring weekend for writers, if a bit exhausting. I've been laying somewhat low processing what I heard so that I can share it with you. Turns out I heard a […]
Awhile back I wrote a post called The Rule of Threes. In re-pondering this again recently, the thought occurs that I'm not generally much of a rule follower. In fact, you might even accurately describe me as a person who is incapable of following rules. I break them like crazy in real life (which is […]
A couple weeks ago my dining room table was covered with china, cut glass, pitchers, and an odd assortment of knick-knacks. This was all stuff brought over from my Mom's house, which we were cleaning out before an estate sale. I was really happy with all the things I'd claimed but the problem was that […]
As in yoo-di-mo-nee-uh. I was ostensibly cleaning up my office just now when I came across my word book, (pictured, left), and decided that pondering words is infinitely more important than a clean office. After all, what is the use of a word book if one isn't constantly leafing through it to see what one […]
