Finding Your Voice
One of the hardest and yet most rewarding parts of being a writer is discovering and developing your voice. In…
Writing
We Just Wasted Time – 12 Steps to Doing Creative Work while Parenting
I have 4 kids from teen to 5 years. My husband works 7 days a week these days. I already…
Go wordless.
I’ve started writing something new. In the morning, I write before doing anything else. I try to do this every…
Yay Boo: The Highs and Lows
No mud, no lotus. The oscillating wave of life with peaks and valleys, comprised of our yay moments and our…
Going Fallow – When Taking a Break Creates
If you’re a creative, you know this feeling; the feeling of playing catch up, the feeling that you have to…
Scrapbooks and Revision
I once took a writing workshop with Margaret Atwood. I was fairly new to writing stories, and over the moon…
Return and Get it
Sankofa – “return and get it” / “learn from the past” Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean proverb There are a number of…
Writing in the Uninspired Life
I have four children. They are 16, 12, 7, and 4. I live in a country town in the Central…
Throwing Out Material
One of my favorite quotes on writing, about the importance of throwing out material, comes from Annie Dillard’s book, The…
Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics
Mira has offered herself to her Lord. The single lotus will swallow you whole. – From “Mira the Bee” For…