Category: writing
How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.
-
Here’s the side of my formerly spiffy fake leather jacket, which I used to wear for work all the time, when I was getting paid to work. That’s, oh, six years back. Yesterday I dug it out of the back of my closet, where it had been undisturbed for six years. I tried it on,…
-
Writing may be a thing you do alone in a room, but sometimes you have to leave the cozy private space and venture forth. I’m at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference in Colorado Springs, hobnobbing with my fellow scribblers. First session of the day is a read and critique. The first page of my novel…
-
Back in 2022, I bought this azalea, one of three to put in a new garden space. But more stuff happened than expected that year, and the new garden space took a little longer to establish. So the three azaleas remained in their pots and while I remembered to water them, I didn’t always remember…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 