Hello, it's November, and I'm taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge again. NaNoWriMo is a weird little shortie for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write 50,000 words of a story in 30 days. There is no prize beyond the fact that you did it. Maybe you have the … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Gilbert’s “The Signature of All Things”
I saw Liz Gilbert speak at the Malibu Public Library last June with my friend Melanie. It was a perfect location, of course, yet also strangely comic, populated as it was with the type of elderly Malibu resident who goes to all of the free events at the library, and so are … [Read more...]
Art, Genius, and Suffering: Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk
This is what I've been thinking about lately. Elizabeth Gilbert is coming to speak in Malibu in a few weeks, and though I publicly loved/hated her mega-sensation "Eat, Pray, Love," when I read it five years ago, I am entranced by her, so I scored two seats for the … [Read more...]