Heya, Pitchwars peeps! Greetings from my strange little corner of the internet! So this is supposed to be all about me. How keen. Let’s see, I’ll skip the part where I say I’ve been writing since I was knee high to something really tiny. Not actual size. Anyway, I write weird stuff, chase around one […]
Read more "Mentee Bio Redux: This time with even more feeling."I want to say something lovely and coherent about Midwest Writers. Something worthy and articulate and thoughtful. I’m not there yet. I’m still floating in the happy endorphin place at the moment. The words community, friendship, love, support. All of those come to mind. Also, I learned so many things about craft. I met amazing […]
Read more "#MWW15"*TW for pregnancy and infant loss. Usually I take one day a year to write about this. Usually on his birthday. But I’m feeling it today, and one thing I’ve learned is that when you’re feeling it is the right time to write about big, hard, things. So here goes. It’s something I hardly ever […]
Read more "Probably TMI"“Go for the jugular. (If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.)” – Natalie Goldberg. I took my first creative writing class in 1999, and my instructor, I think her name was Sonja, assigned us Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. […]
Read more "Going For the Jugular."So, about this time of year folks in general, and especially those in the blogosphere, tend to put up year in review posts, or best of the past year posts, or bold, vivid declarations for what they hope the next year will hold and what goals they’d like to accomplish. I am no different. I […]
Read more "And What a Year it’s Been. . ."Some things that I made. Here is Princess Silly Pants in her Marceline disguise. This is a older pic, but I love it so. S rocking her new leather jacket. Me and M. And some cookies. Because cookies. I’ll be back next week with more writerly type things.
Read more "My Highly Attractive Distractions"The first thing they tell you about living in a haunted house is that you will need salt. Little crystal shakers. Big blue boxes with yellow umbrella girls on the side. The collection of glass worn smooth and salty to the taste even decades after you collected them with grubby fingers. They told you salt […]
Read more "Talismans"