June 10, 2009
- WRITER'S BLOCK: NOTICE YOUR INNER CRITICAL VOICE
The more clutter I have cleared, the more light hearted I have been feeling. Clearing this clutter has been leaving my mind freer to focus on the now, on the present. I do not have to see myself as procrastinating in cleaning up clutter — because I'm not. There are still things that need to go, but I am scheduling them. (…)
June 7, 2009
- WRITER'S BLOCK: MORE ON CLEARING CLUTTER
I have more paper clutter to clear, but I have made such a dent that I literally see the light at the end of the tunnel. The next thing I need to clear out are more books. Now, I happen to love books, and I am probably addicted to collecting them. However, my garden is overgrown. If books could sprout weeds, surely I would have many. (…)
February 13, 2009
- BEGIN WITH FREE WRITING
"If we taught our children to speak in the way we teach them to write, everyone would stutter."
– Mark Twain
For any of you who are parents, you will remember how happy you were to hear your first child's first words. Nor did you correct the way your child spoke the word. You were simply excited to hear "the word." And as your child grew, and their vocabulary along with it, you did not correct how your child spoke. Not until you sensed that your child had comfort with speech. (…)
August 17, 2008
- Writing and Laziness
Yesterday, I was positively impacted to read in Wild Mind what Natalie Goldberg had to say about "laziness." That it is "…the essential ingredient in writing." (p230) She goes on to say that "After you're cleared from lying around, your desire to write will rise up to the surface like a bubble or an old dead fish. (…)
August 15, 2008
- Intuition in Writing and Life
I didn't know what to blog about today. I was leaning towards talking about Natalie Goldberg. In particular about her book, Wild Mind which I recently received for my birthday. (…)
August 14, 2008
- Our Real Writing Voice
I was reading Peter Elbow's Writing with Power last night and was impressed with how he talked about a writer's "real voice." He talked about writing with voice, meaning real voice, as being "… writing into which someone has breathed. (…)
August 13, 2008
- Appreciate and Seize the Opportunity
Today I was thinking about the "tentativeness" of life. (…)
July 28, 2008
- Females in the Blogosphere
I read in the Sunday New York Times yesterday that even in the blogosphere, there is a glass ceiling when blogs are used for the purpose of bringing in income. (…)
July 26, 2008
- Writing "Deprived"
Here I am blogging again. (…)
July 24, 2008
- An Unexpected Turn of Events
My internet had been down for almost a whole week. I have missed blogging. I realized that I had come to enjoy it, though it's a new activity for me. (…)
- Forgetting To Write
oday I was journaling and realized that it had been three days since I had last journaled. And, I had not noticed it till I sat down to write today. I could not say that I avoided journaling. (…)
July 17, 2008
- Patience in the Writing Process
I just finished writing a novel for young adult girls, called (tentatively at least) JULIA: turning 14. I have also completed a first edit. (…)
July 15, 2008
- Being In the Moment
Today at lunch with a friend, I noticed that an hour and a half had gone by before I looked to see what time it was. I had simply gotten lost in our conversation. (…)
July 3, 2008
- Procrastination Works
I had been putting off straightening up my work area for days. Papers were piling up, but I just didn't "feel" like doing anything about it. (…)
- Expect the Unexpected
esterday was my last full day down here in Florida for this particular trip. (…)
July 2, 2008
- Morning Journaling
This morning I took my own advice from Overcome Writer's Block Easily and I kept writing despite not wanting to write. (…)
July 1, 2008
- Appreciating the Day
It may sound silly, but when I got up this morning I was keenly aware of enjoying the very little things in my life. Like my 15 year old feline pawing at my nose to get me to wake up and feed her. (…)
June 30, 2008
- Trust Yourself As A Writer
Today I was finishing up a new novel for teen girls and was very aware of how delighted I felt about the process I had been through. (…)
