Today is Hump Day, Tax Day, Tea Party Day, Brooke’s Bday. Today is my Creative-Sprite-has-sprited-off-to-play-with-her-faerie-friends-and-I-am-very-cross-with-her-but-have-no-choice-but-to-wait-for-her-return-Day. So I am eating an ice cream sandwich on a very windy and cold deck,
Hot Donna and I had some “Hot D Time” today, doing our favorite activity… LAYING OUT. Laying out is kind of the non-activity, actually. It’s a way to say that
All writers are readers, and I personally love to read something brilliant that a friend has written. So attention everybody, because I think you need to read this. My friend
…I want to know how to write like that. We just finished watching Juno (I know, we’re so 2007,) and I chuckled through most of it, sighed and was taken
SO true: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaugEliY-pI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00] Edit>>> Oh, and I needed to hear this too: Ten Commandments for a Happy Writer.
…but it’s much more complicated than I thought. To write about it, anyways. Yesterday I wrote a description of a running horse herd in an open pasture and found myself
…is that it’s just so tough for me to grasp. Yesterday, Adam worked a little over 12 hours. I felt awful, baking muffins and sending out rejected resumes and writing
I’m… …stuck. I think all creative people have a variation of this problem. We punish ourselves, we have great ideas but no follow-through, and we struggle with self-doubt of the
Rather than a lengthy preamble, here is a letter I sent to nearly everyone I know in the great state of California: Hi Friends – I’m not given to writing
“Quit thinking about it,” Adam said, “And just write.” He’s sent me brainstorming tips, bothered me when I’m browsing facebook, and insisted that I’m genius, creative, totally capable of being