Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else. And if it is, let me become fascinated with the shape of the stone. – Ze Frank I had never heard of Ze Frank until today. Wow is really I’ve got to say. Well, not all I’ve got to say. [...]
At the beginning of the week I started a post about my progress on the book, my slow scaling of the mountain that is NaNoWriMo-50,000 words high. Then I set it aside-it’s a rambling bit of words about what I wrote and how the internal editor is at play. Everyone on the planet is thinking [...]
I’m a fan of Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down The Bones. It’s the kind of book you need to read more than once. I underlined the following sentence of hers but have obviously failed to take it to heart: “Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.” Enough said!
I’m a procrastinator and a voracious reader so it only makes sense that I might start reading about writing. I get to say I’m working on honing my craft without actually doing the real work! The problem is that I get very sidetracked in doing so. I have several books in the stack right now [...]
