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ABOUT THIS PROMPT: This week’s prompt honors the emerging theme this week: our histories.  It comes from a book about memoir but I think every writer can benefit from it – because who you are [...]

GRASS The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, past the swinging door into the kitchen. It extends for miles and miles [...]

1 + 1 + 1 = 3 One of the biggest “problems” I had when beginning to write was overwhelm.  I simply couldn’t figure out when and how much I was supposed to read, write, and revise.  And I [...]

I usually like to blog about writing issues and questions that I face as a writer – I like to feel and imagine that I’m helping other writers – if only by being in conversation  with them. & [...]

This week’s prompt is extra gooey.  We’re working with the iconic images of the tarot deck to learn more about the hero’s journey and you know, get the juice flowin.  If you don’t know about the [...]

  Hellos Hellos Hellos!  Big beautiful hellos to all you writers and creative peeps out there living the dream (and if you’re circling around it that counts, too!) Last week, I wrote about [...]

I just read a blog post by Steven Pressfield, a highly productive creative writer whose stark and muscular writing style tends to float in on enormous angel wings.  If you have not yet read his [...]

Now this little ditty goes right along with this week’s article about inner critics, those misguided cowgirls of the heart.  They need some wrangling & a hefty dose of attention but [...]

Hey sparrows.  How’s flying lately?  Gotten any closer to your dreams?  I sure hope so! I’ve been thinking a lot about creative and writer’s block.  What it is and what it isn’t.  I have [...]