Instead of just one word for 2020, these personal commandments came to me.
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My Creative Autobiography, Part 2
Welcome back to my 3-part series exploring creative autobiography! If you’re just jumping now, consider starting with part 1 or jumping back to the original 33 questions. Today’s questions probe deeper into creativity habits and sources. 12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat? I have a lot of healthy habits. I exercise […]
Retreat From Writing
You may have noticed that I’ve been blogging a bit less over the past couple of months. I’ve been having trouble writing new material in general, but blogging has felt especially difficult because of its immediate audience. The best weeks of my recent writing life were when I was revising Waist for my agent; that invigorated […]
Quick Quotes Friday: Capote
“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.” -Truman Capote I chose this quote for three reasons: one, I love the phrase dishonest heart; two, this quote is punctuated brilliantly; and three, it contains a cancer reference, my personal trigger. Let’s take each of those separately. What is a […]
Learn This Lesson From The Spider
The other day, my family was out driving around the countryside, and we stopped at a farmer’s market with a wide-board fence out front. On our way out, laden with fresh lettuce and apples, I stopped to marvel at a spider’s web. It was strung between the tops of two fence posts, but it wasn’t horizontal, […]
Quick-Quote Friday: Emerson
As promised, I’m shaking things up on the creativity front. Today’s post will be the first in a series for September (yes, a series within a series). Every Friday, I’ll post an inspirational quote that I find intriguing, followed by my brief thoughts about the quote: how I interpret it, whether I agree or disagree with […]