In perusing my Documents folder today, I came across a file with my thoughts from the middle of the night after a particularly horrible day last fall. I’d almost forgotten about the incident(s) that this writing responded to – it was something too personal and interconnected with everything in my life to have been posted [...]
I Enjoy Critiques
I really enjoy getting the emails from my critique partners and my mentor every month with their thoughts about my writing. No really. I do. Maybe it’s because the SHU program is geared so that we encourage one another rather than poking holes in perfectly good balloons, but I get excited about constructive feedback from [...]
Come See The Pretty Picture
Today’s a Writing Day. I can feel it in my bones. I woke up at 3:30 and almost got out of bed to start writing because I felt wide awake and wanted to write. Most days it wouldn’t have mattered much, but I actually have to be somewhere at 9am, and I can’t miss that, [...]
The Art of Wonder
While reading this morning I came across the following, written by Nicole Johnson: Wonder is not a possession to be acquired, nor can it be bought; it is merely a response, like joy. We can’t make ourselves feel wonder or amazed admiration any more than we can make ourselves feel happy or hungry when we’re [...]