Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • Those sneaky lurking bastards

    Typos, I mean. Sheesh. My novel The Booker Rebellion will be released in November. It has been copy edited many times. Seriously. I spent some years as a copy editor at two of the finest papers in the West, The Anchorage Daily News and The Register-Guard in Eugene. This was the era when newspapers still…

  • Hanging out the laundry to dry in the hot sun. That’s a thing a retired woman has time to do. And savor. String out the line, drape the sheets, clip on the wooden clothespins. Listen to the cheeping nuthatches scolding that you’ve interrupted their breakfast. Imagine yourself as a part of a long long line…

  • The sweet secret of practice

    Come join me for a fun afternoon of writing practice in two weeks. Like the great music and art masters, we’ll be building muscle memory and training the brain. But this isn’t like practicing scales or mastering vanishing points. This is being surprised, then delighted, by where your creativity carries you. I like using the…