Lisa RiveroToday I updated my reading lists (on the right side of the blog), and I want to share a book I am now reading: The Quickening, by Michelle Hoover. Ever since I began working on the book that only I can write, I have been on the lookout for other works that are based on …
Ben Myers, in a piece in the Guardian yesterday on the public role of the private writer, bemoans the fact that “we’re living in era where a writer can’t just write. They have to be out there.” No kidding. Last spring I attended a local writers’ conference. I hadn’t been to one in a few …
Serendipity: The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery ~ Oxford English Dictionary Supper is finished (eggplant and garbanzo beans), I have a phone conference call in half an hour, and I was planning to write this post about introverted writers and the …
Day five of writing for an hour before going online! Yesterday, I will admit, the hour was a struggle. What I wrote wasn’t very good. I didn’t really know where I was starting much less going. However, I kept writing. I also reminded myself a) that I’m new to this single-tasking thing, and b) I …
I love the title of the recent She Writes contest: Passion Project. It perfectly sums up how I feel about my current work in progress, which is based on the diaries of my great aunt. For my family (and anyone else who is interested), I am publishing excerpts of her entries on “Hattie’s Blog,” choosing representative …