• Try this recipe for some good old-fashioned comfort food. I’m making it tonight
• A thoughtful reflection on Obama
• Read this inspiring interview on following your dream
Archive for October, 2008
Some Link Love
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Write on Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Write on Wednesday asks, “So, how about you? If you’ve done NaNoWriMo, what was the experience like for you? If you’ve never done it, do you think you could?
Do you have a novel residing in you somewhere, waiting to get out?”
Actually, NaNoWriMo was the impetus for starting this blog in the first place. Only I [...]
Week 5 of “The Artist’s Way”
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I can read today.” That is the thought that literally propelled me out of bed Monday morning at 6 AM. Week 4 of TAW involved reading deprivation. I did peruse the political blogs (c’mon, we’re a week out) but I did not pick up one book or magazine for seven days. It felt strange and [...]
Write On Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So, how about you? Do you make time to write everyday? Don’t you think everybody should?
- Write on Wednesday
I do make time to write every day. Most days. If only in the form of morning pages. Three longhand, stream of consciousness pages written first thing in the morning. It’s not “Writing” with a capital “W”. [...]
Creative Tidbit
Posted in inspiration on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers– only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.”
- Grace Hartigan
(Interesting synchronicity… I hadn’t heard of this artist until today. I saw one of her paintings at the Gand Rapids Art Museum and made myself a note to learn more about her. [...]
Week 4 of The Artist’s Way
Posted in The Artist's Way, creative process, inspiration, motivation, reading on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Morning pages everyday day for week 3? Check. It surprised me that for several days almost the entire three pages were filled with reflections on the election and the economy.
Artist Date? Check. I volunteered at the local Obama headquarters. I did some data entry, inputting info from phone calls. I consider this an artist date [...]
Apologies to the Book World
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Booksellers, Publishers, Writers, etc…
Due to these unstable economic times I found it necessary to go through my budget to see where we could tighten it up a little. It didn’t take long to find the place. It fell under the category of “Books” . According to the last year of purchases, I spent an [...]
Link Love
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
• My husband and I have been talking about doing this exact thing. Steve Almond lights the way.
• I love traveling vicariously through her bog.
• Quick, healthy, inexpensive vegan meals.
• Some calming words in difficult times.
Write on Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca
Well, this quote is going up somewhere in my writing space. Of course revising my novel or novel-in-stories feels incredibly difficult but only because I am not daring to do it. The longer [...]
Creative Tidbit
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music– the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
- Henry Miller
