Category Archives: WRITING

Was so thrilled to turn the blanket from the snow into the sky earlier, but can’t get this picture from my mind… We are the baloney between the bread of earth and lettuce sky. Heh-heh-heh. Continue reading →

Aha!  At last… On a bed of snow, under a blanket of sky, we slide through life in a dream. Continue reading →

Headache, backache, laptop day.  Writing three or four things at once.  Essays, outlines, stories.  Serious, fun, fantasy.  Reality sneaks into e-mails.  Research, academic, shopping.  Planning presentations, planning to leave the country.  Planning writing.  Saw the eagle and he taught me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I need someone to take away my laptop.  Or rap my knuckles with a ruler.  I write too much. Continue reading →

I know I’ve said this before–and look forward to saying it many more times, but my writing style in short story has changed dramatically.  I’m not sure this is voice, or something that develops with the slow absorption of recognizing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In workshop the other night, someone mentioned dedicating my story to Sylvia Plath’s "The Mirror" which I realized that I had read a while back in Intro to Lit.  I didn’t quite remember it, just the feeling of it, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Workshopping is, as I’ve said before, an invaluable aid to a writer.  I’ve come out of these sessions with a new viewpoint of both my own writing and that of others.  They catch what you’ve missed, they catch what you’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Excellent writers group meeting tonight, and I’ll post more on it tomorrow.  But one thing remains floating in my mind that I wanted to put down. One of the workshopped pieces we felt needed a character buildup, fleshing out.  While … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Changing direction in many ways in writing lately.  Trying to grasp the heart of it, the part that makes you want to read on through the end.  Whatever web of words is spun, I need to find what draws the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Have been filling my days up with words, twisting them around in story, flat rolling them out in facts in essays, tossing them up and watching where they land. Need to learn to budget my time, she said; a semi-annual … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rough night last night.  Fell asleep on the couch and woke up around two a.m. I think.  Did a bit of computerizing, then went to bed.  But I couldn’t fall asleep.  After writing so much these past few week, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m going to cheat here and steal a post from Learning to Spin I put up this morning: "Okay that’s it.  I need more imagery in my life.  Not red, green, blue or tall, dark, short, but supple as a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When and where inspiration hits is not controllable, but once we notice a trend, it does us well to take the opportunity.  Cars and showers are two likely candidates–when we are furthest from our keyboards.  The writer’s dilemma if you … Continue reading → Continue reading →