Tag Archives: Fall

Bread, Books, and Coffee

Fall has a way of throwing me off balance. The weather turns cool, the rain drizzles, and my laptop doesn’t look half as cozy as the comforter on my bed. Hibernate first, write later. That’s how I felt all last … Continue reading

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Taking it all in on a Sunday.

From The Forest for the Trees: “Everything you put on the page is a deliberate manipulation of what happened, written to keep the reader entertained, moved, sympathetic, horrified, scared, whatever. You are never writing what really happened. Instead, you are … Continue reading

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Gearing Up for a 30 Day Workout

“[W]riting is physical,” Natalie Goldberg says in her book, Writing Down the Bones (p.50). I, along with many of my other NaNoWriMo participant colleagues (I think), would agree. Last year at this time, I dove – head on – into … Continue reading

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