For the next two weeks, I’m hunkering down and getting some projects finished. Instead of leaving the blog all quiet and empty and alone, I’m reposting some of my favorite posts about writing, starting with this one, originally published on …
C’mon, It’s Just Writing.
It’s Monday night here, Labor Day, and I’m watching this show on The Discovery Channel about Mark Inglis, the first double amputee to summit Mount Everest. They just showed him coming down from the summit, where he passed the bodies of …
Count Yourself Down
Back in college, I did a ropes course in the mountains in Colorado. The course wound its way through the forest, way up in the trees. It had ladders and single-rope lines and zip lines. I navigated the length of …
Running Headlong Into The Dark
This week is open topic week over at The Parking Lot Confessional. I chose to talk about my fear of the dark. Lately I find my writing pushing me into areas where I’m…shall we say… less than comfortable. Dark corners. …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Six: Don’t be afraid to break it
A friend called a while back, wanting feedback on a story she’d written for a contest in our local newspaper. I listened as she read, and jotted down notes of what I liked and also what I thought she could …