I mean, in case you were wondering. Coloring books for adults are so in right now. I got this as a gift from my parents when I was in high school. I'm always WAY ahead of my time. I have had many hours to myself since the kids went back to school. At least...12. Or maybe … [Read more...]
You Are What You Believe
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...]
Book Review: Keep the Ends Loose by Molly D. Campbell
"Have you ever heard of a guy named Proust?" So begins Keep the Ends Loose by Molly D. Campbell, who, I must disclose, is a writer I met several years ago on a creative retreat. I have followed her adventures ever since, joyfully reading her work, both because of her talent … [Read more...]
Use the Good Paper
Be nice to your shitty first draft. In November I wrote a novel. Well, 50,000 words in a row in a Word document. But I am practicing saying "I wrote a novel" in case that makes it come true, as if saying it will help me make the document into a book you can hold in your … [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...]