‘On Writing’ Archives
Happy Conference Glow
Is there be anything more exhaustingly satisfying as a good writer's conference? No, I'm sure there's not. I ate too much, talked too much, flitted from place to place too much and had the most creatively inspiring and awesomely fun weekend. I loved meeting new friends and catching up with old ones (not that they're old, but you know what I [...]
Not Retreating, Just Reloading
After a long hard year of family illness, then December death, my writing sucked. I was halted, blocked, totally drained. Then a church friend invited me to a writer's retreat. She said the idea just popped into her head to ask me to go with her. Divine Intervention? Definitely. So off we went to southern Arkansas to a great bed and [...]
Counting Down to Conference
Check out the NOLA STARS Writers Conference March5,6 in north Louisiana for all writers and wannabe writers I LOVE writing conferences. They renew and validate and inspire me. I'm especially excited about my local chapter's writing conference. I'm co-coordinator this year. Yes, that means I'm the big kahuna (translation: the one [...]
Rhythm and Writing
All my stories have soundtracks. Music to write by. Music that disappears into the background as I write. But the minute the music stops, so do my fingers. Some muses like silence, some like the hustle of a coffee shop. My muse likes music. So I make a Pandora channel or two according to what my characters like--which is NOT necessarily the music [...]
