Living In Place
Fermentation
The essay I intended for today’s post was about the fine line between solitude and loneliness – a boundary I often have difficulty negotiating. I wrote about eight hundred words,...
Starting Over
Starting a new book is like learning to drive manual transmission: it’s all about getting into first gear. And even though a writer may have cruised along in fifth to the end of...
Waiting, again.
Writers write. Then we submit and wait - and worry. We wonder what’s wrong that editors take so long to decide our fate. This waiting reminds me of when I was single, living in...
Post Script to Cross Training
Several readers have asked for the title of the book I'm using for my poetry exercises. Poetry Writing: Theme and Variation by David Starkey was published in 1999. While it's...
Cross Training
I’m a prose-writer. I write essays and novels and the occasional short story. I have strong prose muscles, muscles that allow me to think in sentences that are often long and...
Bird by Bird
Ten days into the new year and I’ve already broken the resolutions I didn’t make, missing a day of exercise, eating a dessert I’d sworn off, and skipping a day at my desk. Back...