Posted in Comfort & Control, On Writing on Mar 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The times, they are a-busy. (Doesn’t that sound poetic? More poetic than, Sorry I haven’t written in awhile?) I have many thoughts brewing and several essays started, but I can’t seem to get my thoughts out just right. And I don’t mean ‘just right’ in the drafting sense of writing, but ‘just right’ in the [...]
Posted in On Writing on Mar 5th, 2009 4 Comments »
I just noticed the stats in my WordPress dashboard this morning, indicating I’ve written 1,000 posts to this blog. 1,000. One Thousand. 1,000 shitty first drafts that didn’t exist several years ago. 1,000 times I sat down to write something, and did. 1,000 times I didn’t freeze while staring at a blank screen. 1,000 times [...]
Posted in Books, On Writing on Feb 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog Find new books and literate friends with Shelfari, the online book club. These are some memoirs (and a couple fiction selections) I’ve read in the last few years – if you hover over the book my review or thoughts will pop up (if I’ve written any). I like [...]
Posted in On Writing on Nov 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
This summer I saw Scott Berkun again at a party. I asked about his latest writing project, and writing in general. As we talked, I felt he was taking me seriously as a writer, and it empowered me. It was a simple conversation, but I was a writer talking to a writer. When I asked [...]
Posted in Bryan, On Writing on Nov 5th, 2008 No Comments »
One of our goals as a family is to spend more time creating and less time consuming. We’ve recently backed that up by prioritizing our schedules to allow more time for us to create – Bryan, in particular, since I always seem to be able to squeeze a little in here and there. Bryan’s newest [...]
Posted in Everyday, On Writing on Oct 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Wow. It’s Thursday, and my last post was the Friday Link Love. I guess that makes it pretty obvious I haven’t blogged in awhile. My blog locked me out again over the weekend, not accepting my login and password. That’s always frustrating. It left me hanging in mid air with a digital photo of mozzarella [...]
Posted in Books, On Writing on Sep 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Tonight we were at Third Place Books attending the release party for our friend, Jeffrey Overstreet’s second fantasy fiction novel, Cyndere’s Midnight. Before he read an excerpt, he talked of beasts, and the appetite that drives them, and the things that transform them. “When we don’t understand the monster in ourselves,” he said, “we don’t [...]
Posted in On Writing on Sep 8th, 2008 6 Comments »
I had to throw last week in the scrap pile, as far as routine goes. I don’t know what I was thinking, jumping out of the gate like a race horse. Nothing was normal last week. Monday was a holiday, so I fell behind on Monday stuff. It was also the first week of the [...]
Posted in Books, On Writing on Sep 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
I met Jennette Fulda, author of Half-Assed, at the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. I attended a session titled Blog to Book, and she was one of the panelists, having converted her weight loss blog, Half of Me, into this memoir. She was lovely, and I was happy to buy a copy of her book, [...]
Posted in BlogHer, On Writing on Jul 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Recently a friend – author and movie critic, Jeffrey Overstreet – had the privilege of interviewing Andrew Stanton, writer and director of WALL-E and Finding Nemo. As these things usually go, the interviewer typically has only ten minutes to ask a series of question, sometimes even less. In Jeffrey’s account of the interview, he says [...]
Posted in BlogHer, On Writing on Jul 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Two years ago I attended the BlogHer conference in San Jose thanks to a very generous friend, Ponzi, who had an extra sponsorship pass to give away. The whole trip worked out perfectly because Bryan was working down there that week, met me and the kids at the airport, and entertained them all weekend while [...]
Posted in Everyday, On Writing on May 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Blog burnout and writer’s block seem to be in the air. I haven’t had much in me lately, either, so I will leave you this weekend with words that have challenged me this week… So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much, but well (Philippians [...]
Posted in On Writing on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been on hiatus from my weekly dedicated writing time since March. I was feeling empty of words, stressed about certain projects around here that were undone, and the two put together added up to using my weekly time sans kids on maintenance of household projects. Meanwhile, I left you in the good hands of [...]
Posted in Everyday, On Writing on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
So I’ve spent roughly the last month thinking about the New Year and its inevitable draw to set goals. I know these things are usually considered before the New Year so as to get a head start on accomplishing said goals, but we all know I’m not that kind of an overachiever. Instead I’ve been [...]
Posted in On Writing, Other Places to Find Me on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
That’s the title of my latest post over at The Vox Pop Network. You should go read it. It’s right over here. I give you a taste: A few months ago on an espresso high, I was reorganizing my bookshelves in the middle of the night when I came across good old Ozzie. Chambers, that [...]
Be warned: what you see here is not my best work. It is what Anne Lamott describes in Bird By Bird as a series of “shitty first drafts.” Blogging dragged me kicking and screaming out of creative constipation by getting me to actually write. So I do that. A lot. Without worrying about every word choice or comma placement.
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