“From the people of the backwoods, I have learned that we can see into each other’s hearts if we want to; that there is really never any need for words; that if you want to know a person you have to taek a good lok inside them, to move on inside their flesh, to open […]
“The present tense is the voice of dreams.”– Richard Panek (my creative non-fiction professor)
I’ve been writing creative pieces during my classes recently – listening and contributing (of course!) but also furiously penning everything from blog posts to goal lists and recipes to try out. It hasn’t been easy to get myself to a place where I can write; I have pockets of time and materials and stories to […]
“Trust the impulse.” – Professor Panek (on writing down your first thoughts)
All the notebooks I’m going to fill this summer! Fellow writers (and readers), I’ve decided to join your ranks starting this week! Although I’ve missed the boat for the official Camp National Novel Writing Month, I’ve decided that I’m going to make the effort to write 100,000 words over the next two months (or, at […]
“Think small. If you have a big mind, that will show itself. If you can’t think small, try philosophy or social criticism.”― Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Yet another list today, but this one a little more on the how-to side; having recently done a bit of travel, I feel it is mandatory to put up a post on the best ways to travel for a writer, from hyperlocal (really really hyperlocal) to global, travel can be just what you need to […]
Yesterday, I mentioned that one method of celebrating the day-to-day is to take notes. This advice was first introduced to me by Anne Lamott in her book Bird by Bird. The first time I read it, the message didn’t necessarily sink in – what was I going to do with the mountain of notecards/notebooks/computer files […]
Ending the week with another feet-related piece of fiction! Clipping Annalisa’s toenails was a nightmare. She would squirm back and forth, wriggling her smelly 6-year-old feet, and her eyes would grow wide at the sight of the nail clippers. No promise of “it won’t hurt” or “it will take just a second” would placate her. […]
I haven’t been writing much for this blog in the past week. I’ve been making grocery lists and plans to write and essays on women writers in the early modern period and notes on hormones. I’ve been using my words in other contexts – writing and talking out feelings in order to heal. But I […]