I subscribe to AdviceToWriters, which emails me a quote every day. Here’s today’s: If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with […]
I am — honestly — in the last stages of the novel revision, and one of the picky things I worried over today was “skirts or skirt,” as in: With a flounce of her red skirt (skirts?) beneath her cloak that suggested the young woman she would become in a few short years… My […]
So my job this month is to write a poem a day and I’m encouraging you to write, too. It doesn’t have to be good. Today’s assignment (at POETRYisEVERYTHING) was to write about the name of a pet. The Pet Cemetery’s First Citizen Turtle (1998-2003) The tortoiseshell cat, taken in as a tiny kitten, a furball […]
In one of those interesting synchronicity moments that sometimes happen (when one pays attention), my husband came home yesterday with a story he heard on Radio Lab, about a fake bus stop created in front of the Benrath Senior Center in Dusseldorf, Germany. It really hit me where I live, and I hope some of […]