I was talking to a friend the other day, another writer, about our respective novels (yes, Beverly, you really DO have a novel underway!), and it made me reflect yet again on my work habits. What was it at the retreat in New York that allowed me to write? I think it was the extent […]
Just the other night, lying awake and worrying, I thought of this quotation. It used to hang on my office wall, over my desk, but that was a couple of offices ago. I couldn’t remember the exact words. And then today, tidying my office (with a goal of creating space to write in, if only […]
I’ve agreed to be “tagged” in a blog hop! It’s not the first time I’ve been asked, but this time around, I decided that I’m never going to be asked at a time of leisure. (When would that be, anyway?) So I said “yes.” I hope you’ll visit Jennifer Bullis’s blog, Poetry at the Intersection of […]
Once again The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World blows my mind. This week they’ve linked us to writers’ sheds — featuring a picture of Roald Dahl’s. When my daughters were 18 months old (to continue the thread from a previous post), my office was behind the couch in our living […]