Category Archives: WRITING

Well there ya go, from wild urges to throw your child into the wind, and learning to rein in, the second thoughts and doubts seep in to turn the gold to straw. Stall with "necessary" research, online all day today, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In reading and editing some of my own work, I’m sometimes surprised by little hidden meanings or connections that I swear I wasn’t consciously aware of writing into the story. I wondered about this, hoping obviously that it’s some sort … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Learning some great things in the Creative Writing course.  Not new, perhaps, but maybe I’m just listening better now, changing the process a bit.  I should probably have posted this in the class journal, but I’ve been spending so much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been busy on stories, well one story in particular that is near ready to go, so I haven’t been writing here as much as usual.  I also have tons of notes to transcribe for my Creative Writing weblog, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes, ya just gotta. Sometimes, eight hundred words can depend on a few. Tonight in our Creative Writing class we picked them out of stories, tossed them about and saw them fall back into place. The right word, whether it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just noticed (and I should have, long ago) something that can certainly affect a reader, and the writer, in this day and age of technology that didn’t come up in the days before e-mail or online submissions. You know all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yeah, choosing the perfect words.  Sometimes, just to get past the hurdle of that perfect word or phrase that your brain left out, you force another part of your brain to throw something in from memory that almost fits the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I come from a long line of seamstresses; from ballgowns for high class society in Poland, to the miniskirts and children’s smocked dresses of my own day. The initial joy was in the pinning of the pattern to the cloth, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last month, I submitted a story that was roughly in 2nd draft form–only having been edited for phrase, sentence, grammar–the same story I just posted about in the previous entry about workshopping. Why did I submit for publication–a contest, no … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A story I’d written over the holidays was workshopped last night at our meeting, and the feedback was revealing, confirming, enthralling, sobering, and most of all, motivating. The bad news:  With a single final phrase, it is obvious that I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have three weblogs to write in this morning, and the thoughts are still swirling around in a vortex I must wait for to slow down and settle into place. A writers group meeting last night, some great thoughts both … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I need a lock on my computers.  Opened only with the magic words, "Then what?" No problem with the writing, with the going on and on in great big leaps of words that embed themselves upon the page and settle … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Oh boy.  I seem to be developing a behavioral problem here.  A sudden and severe case of the "I don’t wannas" brought upon me by the Creative Writing course again that brings with it, like Christmas, visions of sugarplum stories … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There you go.  Down to the last page of the first chapter of the Book of Year.  What was revealed? Is there a buildup in the setting, is there an incident that leads to more to come, is there a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It seems I want what I have sadly little talent for.  And while I press on to learn the new, the varied forms of narrative to find something I can settle into, I’m only shoveling out more paths that lead … Continue reading → Continue reading →