wide open

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.–Emily Dickinson

NaNoWriMo: An Unfortunate Event

It’s pretty quiet around this blog. I blame it on NaNoWriMo. By the way, I’m on 42,000 words. Five days to go. Here is a hilarious letter sent to NNWM participants, from Lemony Snicket. (author of The Series of Unfortunate Events) I got a huge giggle out...

dreams

Yesterday I spoke to a school class about being an author. I’ve long dreamed of doing this. I loved it. The teacher gave me up to an hour, I hoped I could fill 30 minutes, and I ended up running out of time. The kids actually seemed to be enjoying...

turn off

One of the hardest part about NaNoWriMo is forcing myself to Turn Off my internal editor, and just let it spew. I find this troublesome. But it’s a good prescription for what ails me: a hyper-perfectionist writer, who polishes and polishes until the life is...