Writing Life
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Stories matter.
In trauma therapy yesterday, I quoted Samwise Gamgee. And it made me cry when I said it out loud. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role stories play […]
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Insight and wine.
Over Memorial Day weekend, my bestie and I got together for a walk in the woods and a wine date. We found some morel mushrooms (which were too dry to […]
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Ghosts.
I do believe in them. I understand if you don’t, I don’t think less of you for it. When my sister and I were kids, we lived in a nice […]
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I love cats.
Earnest Hemmingway once said, “If you want to write, keep cats.” I don’t know a ton about Hemmingway, but I agree with him about cats. I love them so much. […]
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Getting in touch with my creativity.
I have this sense that I’m not good enough at what I do. It’s fairly pervasive. I’ve been trying to figure out where that thought is coming from, and what […]
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Writing is hard.
While writing my newsletter the other day, I noted to my recipients that writing a book takes a lot longer than drawing or painting a picture. If I can write […]
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Sharing the adventure!
When I first started this blog, I wasn’t entirely sure what to blog about. And then I got on social media, and I really didn’t know what to share. I […]
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Everyone wants to be Batman.
I had a thought a while ago about Batman and Gotham. “Everyone wants to be Batman, no one wants to be Gotham.” The thought felt interesting, but I wasn’t completely […]
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Its and buts.
After doing some medium-extensive plot repairs on my first novel, In the Dark, I printed out a hard copy to read over and make sure my plot changes made sense. […]
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Positive reinforcement.
I have a dog training and cat behavior service as a side hustle. Not because it makes me a ton of money, but because I love animals, have worked with […]
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