Writing a Book is Like Riding a Roller Coaster. It’s been a long slog uphill as I’ve worked on a long piece of narrative non-fiction on and off for going on three years. The on part has been the research and some published articles; the off part has been a heavy sense of guilt for […]
What I Saw on My Artist’s Date
It was completely irresponsible to drive to Boston and spend the Monday of a packed week at the Museum of Fine Arts, but that’s just what I did yesterday. My husband had the day off after a week of being on-call at the hospital, and at first I couched the sortie as something he needed […]
Big Magic
Not many books I’ve read about writing and staying inspired have confronted the fear factor, so I was eager to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. At long last, the library copy became available, and I have the book in my hands. What I like about what I’ve read so far is that Gilbert […]
Writing With Praise
If Living with Praise is hard, writing with praise is even harder. This is counter-intuitive to be sure – and a sure sign that we all need more praise in our lives generally, and in our writing lives in particular. Writing with Praise is also something I do every Tuesday Night at Salon, the brain-child […]
Morning Pages
One year ago – after ten months of energetically marketing my novel – I followed The Artist’s Way, a twelve-week course in finding my way back to the page. Written by Julia Cameron, the book has become something of a bible for artistic types who want to work past all the blocks to creativity that […]