It’s 4:45 a.m. I’ve been awake since about 3:30 a.m. There’s a dull buzz in my brain that tells me I’m still tired enough that I should be asleep. But I am not. I am awake. I am awake in that particularly acute way of being awake that is terribly uncomfortable when all I want […]
I haven’t written here in a while. I’ve been struggling to find time to post “writerly” things between the general busyness of life. As I was about to hit the post button on a lengthy status on my personal Facebook page, it occurred to me that I could share it here. That this page doesn’t
Even those who love to write can be intimidated by a blank page. Yet writing, like pretty much everything, gets easier with practice. If writing is a struggle for you, try breaking it down into smaller steps: 1. Gather your thoughts You don’t have to use elaborate brainstorming techniques or a formal outline to prepare
As I’ve mentioned a few (dozen?) times in the last month, my first novel—The Insistence of Memory—is now available (Kindle and paperback!). But this post isn’t specifically about promoting my book as much as it is about answering some questions I’ve been getting from friends and family about how they can be supportive. There are
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Writing often feels a lot like sculpting. The rewriting and revising is shaping and carving. The editing and proofreading is sanding and polishing. But you can’t do any of those things when you are staring at a blank page. Before you can sculpt and polish a story, you need words to create its clay. That
