It’s no mistake that several of my posts in the last week have been about waiting and playing. Can you tell ideas are percolating? It’s true. They have to simmer a while before I can put an outline down…then put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard). I’m still stuck on bits of that […]
Persistence & Other Such Things When It Comes to Writing
A few interesting articles in November’s Poets & Writers Magazine. Check out the Agents & Editors Q & A with Jonathan Karp, editor in chief of Twelve. Obviously, Twelve is doing something right (publishing one book a month). Fifteen of the first thirty books published by Twelve have been New York Times bestsellers. There’s much […]
A Song For You
Sea Wolf is one of my favorite bands. In reality, this song is particularly sad, yet it offers a smidgen of hope. The man in the song has been abused in childhood by both his father and brother… And yet. “It’s the winter windows that ends become beginnings.” Since my friend Karen Maezen Miller’s one-day […]
Quotes I Like Today
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt […]
Dance In Your Car & Bust the Toast Rule
There’s a whole lot of yummy goodness in Patti Digh’s Life is a Verb. Digh jumps right in: “At some point in your life, you’ll only have thirty-seven days to live. Maybe that day is today. Maybe not.” Her comments refer to the subtitle of the book, “37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and […]