3 Ways Writers Can Stay Creative and Protect Their Mental Health
3 Ways Writers Can Stay Creative and Protect Their Mental Health. I enjoyed this post from Lauren Sapala’s blog and thought you might, too. One of the ways, of course: KEEP A JOURNAL.
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Review of Sparrow in Five Willows Literary Review
When I attended the Stringtown reading a few weeks ago, I exchanged books with two other poets. A few days later, poet Koon Woon asked if I would like to see a review of my book in the on-line journal Five Willows. I am very, very pleased to share it with you. (Click on the […]
More Thoughts on Being Kept
At last night’s workshop, Shawna and her students didn’t need to talk about resistance. They brought notebooks and pens! They also brought up some additional important points about keeping a journal, and they jogged my mind to come up with a couple others. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or penmanship. Just write. Writing in a […]
I’m a Kept Woman
This evening I am taking a class on “Mindful Living” from my friend Shawna Michels, and I get to talk for a few minutes about keeping a journal. I think I can credit Heather Sellers with the denigration of that phrase “keeping a journal.” She said (somewhere) that she didn’t want a “kept journal,” that […]