Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:51:15 +0000 When you write a novel, you become fully and deeply immersed in a fictious world. When you write memoir,...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:50:52 +0000 Imagine yourself as a field. Well, a clearing really. One one side a muddy expanse, leading to an area of...

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:42:31 +0000 I had dinner with a friend last night and she asked if we could set up some time to get together and...

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:14:06 +0000 When I give a lot of tarot readings at any given time, I have nighttime visions or dreams or hyperactive...

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:46:49 +0000 I have spent the past few days or weeks in a torpor. Is anything worth it? Finding it harder to write,...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:55:21 +0000 A former writing student recently hired me to teach her how to be a writing coach. So much came up around...

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:12:52 +0000 The hardest thing about reading tarot is not projecting what you want the cards to say. A good reader...

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:17:39 +0000 A great many people I coach, myself included, have had to go backwards to go forwards in their careers as...

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:41:27 +0000 I have just finished a revision of Earth, my novel, using software (NewNovelist 2.0) that has helped...

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:57:49 +0000 I was sent recently to Yerevan in Armenia on a media development project for a nonprofit. My role on the...

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:26:18 +0000 I keep coming across the theme of how women hide their intelligence as writers. Again and again this...

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:12:03 +0000 I was asked by a friend to listen to The Secret on CD. I was not a fan of the craze. Even before I...

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:06:09 +0000 As I mentioned in an earlier blog, my friend Lisa and I camped in Maine recently. The campsite happened...

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:14:18 +0000 As a writing coach, I’ve worked with several women writers on memoir. Again and again, the following...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:58:02 +0000 I have a good friend named Lisa. She doesn’t watch movies much; she’s often seeing blockbusters three...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:02:01 +0000 I am painting a series of the tarot cards in my studio. For a month, I painted three or four cards and...

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:50:03 +0000 You know you want to write a memoir or novel. It’s in there, you can feel it, but you haven’t done...

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:04:04 +0000 When I coach writers, the single greatest impediment to their writing is childhood trauma around their...

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:07:55 +0000 I received several emails about the Product vs Process blog, where I discussed the need to focus more on...

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:47:36 +0000 As a writer and writing coach, I stress the importance of well-written, well-integrated setting....