Entries by Bethany

Sheila Bender interviews

This morning Ed Harkness sent me a link to this interview series with the wonderful Sheila Bender. https://kptz.org/podcasts/in-conversation/ I am frantically preparing to attend PNWA this week, but wanted to share this resource with you. I hope you write!   Bethany

17 Ways to Break Back into Your Writing Project

For most of this year, and obsessively this summer since coming home from France, I’ve been working on my mystery novel. But summers have not, historically, been my best time for getting work done. Summers are usually my time for letting work lie fallow. Summers are for hanging out with my kids. Summers are for […]

Edward Harkness: The Law of the Unforeseen

Our reading at Elliott Bay Books is only one week away! Here’s a poem from Ed’s newest book. I’ve discovered that you can find him all over the web, including Verse Daily and Terrain.   One of the things (or two) that I love about Ed’s poems is their range. He strikes me as a thoroughly Pacific […]

Should I, should I not?

I am challenging myself to create a small, private class this fall. I promised myself that I would begin planning it this week. When I wanted to learn to play the piano, I bought a “teach yourself” book–but after the first time sitting down with it, I…basically…never again opened it. I needed a teacher, and […]