Entries by Bethany

Your Next Writing Prompt

I am a great lover of writer prompts, and I seem to have accumulated a dozen books of them. Books that I almost never open… This year, however, I’ve had a major realization around writing prompts. My realization began with my new little poetry project that builds on my old one-bad-poem practice. I was doing […]

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin  

Writing — guilty pleasure or basic need?

So here it is, January of the New Year. I have a few resolutions I’m working on, and someone suggested that I reframe why I set them, and that conversation got me thinking. Then, at Writing Lab today, one of our writers admitted that she doesn’t write very much, even though she’d like to, because […]

What’s Your Morning Routine?

My mother used to say, “I have no secrets.” In other words, if she thought it, she shared it. So I want to share with you the secret of my morning routine. As soon as I get up–well, pretty much as soon as I get up–I go out to the kitchen, flip on the Keurig, […]