This past week, I discovered a new form of torture. It goes like this: I have two to three days of full-blown, all-out writing. I’m talking the best writing days of my life: the I’ve-finally-revised-that-troublesome-scene kind of day, the elusive-climactic-moment-finally-made-right kind of day, the this-is-the-reason-I-do-this, maybe-I’m-decent-at-this-after-all, I-think-all-those-years-were-really-worth-it kind of a day. I’m talking about glorious, […]
The Apollo 13 mission may have made it safely back to earth, but it wasn’t without overcoming major obstacles. The superstitious types were shaking their heads: with a name like that, the mission was doomed from the start. And, as if that ominous name wasn’t enough, NASA seemed to be taunting fate: the spaceship launched […]
The other day, my friend Michelle and I were having coffee at Java Joes, shooting the shit and talking–as we do–about the general nature of life. Why is it, we wondered, that people get stuck? We were talking about the nature of stagnation. The person who stays in the job they hate even though it […]
Yesterday, as I was washing dishes, I ran the sponge over the final cutting board and Randi and I caught of whiff of something foul. We looked at each other. “Did you smell that?” I asked. We checked behind us (beware floating clouds of filth!). We checked our shoes. I even went so far as […]
As I did with Bibliophilia, for today’s post, I sought inspiration from the cards, one for each genre. This time, I went to an actual oracle deck, Earth Magic: These cards are accompanied by a guidebook, so I excerpted some of the card’s advice as well. Use the cards and/or their messages as encouragement, advice, […]
You may not know this about me, but I teach professional writing at the University level, and I love it! There is a practicality to this writing style that aligns with daily aesthetic, a sense of order and audience awareness that, in the vast openness that is the creative path, offers my brain relief. Not sure […]
By guest blogger Bob Sabatini Well, now, it’s been an interesting couple of months, hasn’t it? When I was asked once again to write a guest post for yet another March, the first thing I had to know was whether I would be welcome or encouraged to write about “the Elephant in the room,” because […]
This winter, Randi and I took a road trip from California to Norman, Oklahoma for the holidays. It’s a long drive, over twenty-four hours, and we spend most of the time reading to each other. Randi had picked up Dorothea Brandt’s How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success that Works. Brandt’s other book, Becoming […]
Well, it is March 6th, and usually Writer’s March would be well under way. This year, however, has been unexpectedly chaotic. I moved to a new apartment in February and only yesterday set up my home Internet. Believe it or not: March crept up on me so fast that even I didn’t notice that it. […]
Towards the end of any month-long writing challenge, the average writer finds herself grabbing at straws for inspiration to keep writing. All the great ideas that had been incubating up until the beginning of the journey are exhausted and she’s left with either a lengthy, cumbersome tome or yet another blank page of reticence representing […]
