I’m doing web work, watching Jonathan Ross and listening to The Chairman of the Borg test a voice-to-text-message app on his iPhone. Despite these thrilling happenings, I am pulling myself away to post some news updates. First up, an announcement. …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Five: Watch your aim
If you ever get a chance to attend a reading or workshop with Ron Carlson, go. I can’t stress it enough: GO. I’ve only talked with him a couple of times, but each time I walked away with these amazing …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Four: Focus, Breathe, Wait
I just got back from yoga. I do hot yoga, where the studio is heated to 105° with the humidity cranked up to around 40%. I haven’t been in a while, and to be honest, today kicked my tail. I …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Three: Everything is Material
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.” ~Catherine Drink Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957 A …
Twelve Posts on Writing, Day Two: Avoiding the overdone
If you run with the first idea that comes to mind, you’ll end up writing what you already know, what readers have already read, what agents and editors see too often. You’ll write the overdone, the tired, the familiar, the stereotype, the cliche.