The crazy thing about writing fiction is that when you see your friends, your characters, careening towards their doom, you can’t call out to them to stop. You have to push them forward, toward it, and then watch as their world unravels beneath them. You can’t even help them pick up the pieces, not …
Most of us put down the pen for something. We get sick, or our child does. The holidays begin and take over our lives. A car accident distracts us, and we are drawn away from our work. A combination of things took me from the page in December. Recovering from HOW TO TAME A WILLFUL …
Published on the New Year in 2011…I love it, so I included it here again… My Facebook friend, Glenne, sent me this poem. I loved it so much that I wanted to include it here, along with her introduction. This poem is written on the George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial in Windsor Castle, …
“Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak..surrender to them. †Hermann Hesse When we give in to the voices of our souls, pick up our pens, and write, we step into the world of faith and shadows, seeking illumination. Sometimes we find it. Other …
Photo from http://blog.notesolution.com/2012/07/26/to-bring-or-not-to-bring/ Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, about writing or anything else. A writer has to do this, I think, but there is a lot that can stand in the way of hearing our hearts. We can get …