Thinking of becoming a writer? It's fantastic and fulfilling. It's introspective and inspiring. It's awesome. Writing can broaden your mind and free your spirit, but it also has...well...side-effects. If I were to create a warning label for writers, it would look like this:Writing makes you fat. Unless you have a mega-metabolism, it's almost inevitable. All… Continue reading Warning Label for Writers: Side Effects of Writing
(This post was originally a guest post on Living for the Books )thewritingfortress.tumblr.com When I was in high school, I told the career counselor I wanted to be a novelist. She looked at me and let out a huge sigh. “A writer? Of fiction?” she said in a toxic tone. “How about psychology? ” It was… Continue reading Ten Ways to Tell if You are a Writer
Ten years ago I handed a woman in my critiquing group a short story I wrote involving an Alpine farm and a drowned kitten. "It's dark," I said. "Kind of like your writing."A few days later she handed it back to me, her nose wrinkled up from the stink of bad prose. "I write NOTHING… Continue reading Critiquing: Nice Gets You Nowhere
Every writer has a preferred place to write. You can learn a lot about a person by looking at her writing space. So I thought I’d analyze mine and share the results with you.(FYI: If I were rich, I’d have a totally different space. I’d have enough money to get a new apartment with a… Continue reading The Write Space
Untethered is now available everywhere e-book and in paperback on amazon! So, in order to celebrate, I am going to share ten things about the book. 1. Like Sylvie and Cassie, a friend and I nearly drown at North Beach. I didn’t astral project like Sylvie, but I did black out and only wake up when… Continue reading Ten Things You (probably) Don’t Know About Untethered
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