2010-01-30 13:05:14Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:05:14 +0000 Oh, the artistic deaths I have known. My first death was around giving up full-time...

2009-10-11 14:46:26Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:46:26 +0000 I taught Mystical Hands to 5 year olds last week, at a progressive private school...

2015-07-06 21:03:48Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:03:48 +0000 Art by Caroline Allen. Part of Operation 365, one painting a day for one year,...

2009-08-28 11:42:13Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:42:13 +0000 I’m reading Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell (I’d recommend it for practical...

2007-08-01 09:48:30Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:48:30 +0000 As a teacher of writing, a writing coach, and a writer with her own personal trauma, I...

2009-08-15 20:02:15Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:02:15 +0000 Plot is a verb. Often new writers will wax poetic about the internal working of their...

2009-01-02 15:05:14Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:05:14 +0000 I’m coaching several clients on memoir. One of the single most difficult aspects of...

2009-04-10 14:05:50Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:05:50 +0000 A week before posting the blog Just Be Yourself, I was speaking excitedly to another...

2008-05-04 14:16:19Sun, 04 May 2008 14:16:19 +0000 Again and again when I’m coaching novelists, I notice that new writers are unwilling...

2009-07-27 17:38:54Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:38:54 +0000 Strawberry medley, mosaic in paper, work in progress, www.carolineallen.com I’ve hit a...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:02:10 +0000 In the film Batman Begins, a theme that fascinated me was how to create an aura of superhero around the...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:41:50 +0000 I have a client who came to me to coach her in the writing of a nonfiction book about kids in foster...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:06:10 +0000 After writing the blog From Neglect to Nurturing, I started thinking about how one goes about finding...

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:44:38 +0000 I’m lying on my sofa at about 10 Sunday morning with a hangover. I went to a party last night where the...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:22:53 +0000 All writers have to learn to live in the place of “I don’t know”. Novels are complex unweildy animals. If...

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:58:16 +0000 I read an English translation of the I Ching almost daily. I find the ancient Chinese way of putting...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:20 +0000 I’m teaching a one-day workshop in Seattle November 1st called Shamanism and Writing. I wanted to offer...

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:04:00 +0000 I had a great coaching session this morning with a woman writing a memoir, a therapist. She’s on vacation...

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:57:07 +0000 When I finished the rough draft of Earth a few years ago, I felt like I’d just run a marathon. I made it...

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:58:18 +0000 I’ve just picked up James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, the ‘memoir’ that caused such a fuss a few...