Recipe Boxes Hold More Than Food Ideas
Today’s post varies a bit from my usual fiction writing or language topics, instead delving into a personal story. I am the proud owner of two recipe boxes from two different mothers. What I find in these boxes are pieces of their lives. Recipes they each savored and wanted...
Permission To Be Creative
I sat in class with my eighth – grade head on the table. I was ashamed. Dread climbed up from my stomach and formed a knot in my throat as I anticipated telling my parents about the D grade I had just received in art. I was a straight-A...
Somewhere Between The Siren And The Muse
I live, as I suspect many writers do, somewhere in between the siren and the muse. Remember the Sirens from Homer’s Odyssey? Just outside my studio door lurks a siren. She wears the colors of Facebook, television, and mindless reading. She uses a lullaby to entice me back under...
How I Plot Novels
Today, I’m sharing a glimpse behind the curtain into my novel writing process. As a writer, I’m always interested in how others do their work—always looking for new and improved ways to get words on the page. I used to feel guilt and shame over using so many analog...
Rewriting Reality: The Power Of Telling A Story
Our self-told stories make up our lives. They were gifts wrapped in imagination, inspiration, excitement, pain, and heartache. Gifts given by thousands of writers. Gifts just waiting to be opened. — Ellery Adams in The Secret, Book & Scone Society. These lines in a book I read grabbed me....