Yes, yes, I’ve used this post title before. It’s still the best advice I can offer anyone at the onset of a big project. Of an abstractly, potentially big project. Here’s a line that I think I found in You’ve Got a Book in You, by Elizabeth Sims: “A year from now you’ll wish you had started today.” The […]
At his recent Seattle reading, poet Ted Kooser suggested that we read about 100 poems for every one we write. I decided I would try to take that seriously. Well, somewhat seriously, and I have been reading poems every morning, even while working on the novel. Here’s one of the poems I read today — […]
This kid is driving me nuts. My daughters don’t read my blog (though a couple of their friends do), so I feel pretty safe coming here to gripe about Emma, who is my excuse this morning for not working on my novel. I don’t imagine that it is going to be all that shocking or […]
If it looks as though I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time reading other people’s blogs of late, it’s because I have been. Even so, I felt pretty blessed to come across this post from Kathleen Kirk, at Wait! I Have a Blog?! (As well as the amazing Death tarot card depicting Emily Dickinson.) […]