Category: Storytelling
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What I learned about wanting and asking
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From July 4th to July 20th, I road tripped across the south. The first seven cities were with my babies, traveling from Georgia-Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama. The last nine days I spent with three of my students and various activist organizations around the country, traveling from Tennessee to Texas. I was home for…
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10 things I did to find the time and motivation to write my first book
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When I wrote my first novel, I was a full-time college student, full-time 911 dispatcher, new wife, and mother of a three year old and a seven year old. And I wasn’t studying English or writing (that was undergrad). I was majoring in Political Science with plans to go to…
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Meditation to make writing less dreadful
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The God-honest truth about writing is that it’s hard. Writing is hard. I don’t ever argue against the fact that is, but I wanted to make sure that I said that, just like that. It’s hard. It can be spiritually and financially rewarding, therapeutic even, but it can…
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Book writing, full moons, and deep feelings
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I’d been working on the same novel for going on two years. I started off one way and then went for another way. That didn’t quite sit right with me with either, so I tried another direction. Time after time, I kept getting stuck. Took my own advice…
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Let’s do the impossible. You down?
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What is the impossible? It’s whatever you want it to be, but it’s something that requires a helluva lot more energy than usual. It’s a challenge that’s both scary and exciting. It’s something you don’t have to do, but you want to. Like, you really, really want to. I’m…