Place is the most pivotal fact of connection. The attention to detail and precision, the ability to be specific, the willingness to offer context–all of these make for writing that welcomes connection with a reader. And connection with the writer. By identifying and branding our experience, with exactness and with truth, we claim it as […]
Week 9: Lemons into Lemonade
Choose one situation in your life about which you feel negative. Take fifteen minutes for yourself. With pen in hand, explore the possible positives you stand to gain through this situation.
Be Available
Writing is an activity best embedded in life, not one pursued while divorced from life. I look at interruptions as interventions. I try to channel spiritual information, rather than inventing it. When I allow writing to become a more fluid process, I feel less that I am charged with self-consciously guarding it, and instead challenge […]