Almost every night when I ask my daughter what book we’re reading before bedtime, she says, “The one.”
“Which one?”
“You know. The one that makes you cry.”
What Writing Looks Like
Sometimes writing looks a lot like someone staring at the wall. The notebook is there, waiting for words. But the writer? She’s staring at the wall. Or maybe out the window. It doesn’t look like work. It looks like doing …
Not Just Writing, but Writing Well
I’m flipping through the notebook from my novel-writing studio this semester led by James Sallis. Just pages and pages of scrawled notes. Some of them are marked with asterisks. I put those by the bits of Sallis Wisdom I especially …
There’s Editing…And Then There’s Editing
Today, over at The Parking Lot Confessional, I wrote about self-publishing and editing. Here’s a snippet: We writers love what we write. We coddle our novels and purr over them and think they’re oh-so-precious. We show them off to our …
Does Your Environment Impede Your Creativity?
I wrote a post for The Parking Lot Confessional today about how our working environment helps or hinders our creative work. Here’s the link: The Birds And The Butterflies. Here’s a blurb: We’re growing butterflies at our house. We bought …