Musings on living, loving, and leading in today's world.
Today, someone asked me how I was doing with my latest book. I have been working on my second book for over a year. I’m making slow, steady process. And I’m still not sure if it is a book that … Continue reading “How’s your book coming?” →
Everyone wants to have some kind of legacy: to leave some kind of impact or feel that we have mattered in some way. I don’t feel very confident that anything that I have done or will do will leave that kind of legacy.
A month ago, a writer friend issued a challenge to try and write something outside our comfort zone. She said, “If you usually write poetry, try to write fiction. If you usually write fiction, try to write memoir. Whatever your usual genre is, try and write something different.”
It seemed like a good way to get myself out of feeling pretty stuck in my writing, so I accepted her challenge.
I dream of a creative life; of a studio in the backyard where I can spend hours in all of my creative pursuits. The reality is that living a creative life does not compensate well in our capitalistic society and so creativity lives in the small spaces around and in between the more mundane, but necessary, day to day adventures in vacuuming.
This week, I published my first book. (you can buy it here!) I say my first book, because I plan to publish again. I want to write books for adults and books for children. I want to write about things … Continue reading “Writing to learn.” →