I’m thinking I may not even post this. I only need to write it. I just need some time to reflect. I have a confession to make. I took yesterday off from school just to get caught up on the blog. Not just posts, or replying to messages, or checking in on the blogs I…
Tag: writing process
Evading the Wool Suit is Easy if I’m Dreaming, or Writing
My life post teaching career has shifted incrementally but consistently since the big change. I’m not sure if it’s like aftershocks or more like when something settles back down after really being tossed around. It’s been exactly a year. Today is the last day of school and I never went back once, not to visit…
Writing Wednesdays: No Man’s Land
There is a sweet spot, a perfect place I like to be with my writing. There is also the wet cement place. The place of nothing but frustration and obligation. Where am I right now? Smack in the middle of the two. My paradise as a writer is new creation. Writing the outline. Talking…
Writing Wednesday: The Disconnect
The most cruel thing to happen to a writer? The most discouraging phenomena? It happens all the time. It’s that leap from head to paper. I cannot tell you how many times I have wandered around my house, or was driving, or in the shower, and a story flows through my head like ambrosia. It’s…
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