Cross-posted from www.inkintheveins.com

All right, so it’s not the bal­ance of all things, merely cer­tain aspects of my life ( Read more... )

They are connected, the Word and the Poem, and not simply because one is the building block of the other. Words are treasures, solitary and held in community, lost and found, and sometimes used as bludgeons. Words are sacred objects. We do not own them, they own us, and we are responsible for using them well ( Read more... )

Like most people, my 2010 was a mixed bag. On the whole, though, I'd say the balance was positive, and that's a darn nifty thing to bring into the next year ( Read more... )

I have the weekend off. Sort of. Maybe. And by that, I mean I don't have anything scheduled. There's always something to do ( Read more... )

Today is Writing Day down in PDX, and much has been accomplished ( Read more... )

This morning I popped a CD into the player for the drive to work. It was one I hadn't listened to in, oh, two years, and it was only in the car because I had thrown it into the box the last time I drove to Portland and thought I might want to listen to it when 2.5 hours turned into 4.5 hours ( Read more... )

This quote from author Susan Henderson is dead on. At least for me ( Read more... )

This is one of my writing weekends. Yeah, okay, every weekend is a writing weekend, but my Official Writing Weekends(tm) are spend down in Portland with simonepdx. Saturdays we meet up with flamfoohoyden and coreolis to have some girl time, and community writing time ... after having breakfast noshes, of course!

I love Portland weekends.

simonepdx and I are knee-deep in our next ( Read more... )

I've been in "research the genre" mode of late. Read a first-person thriller, a social-commentary comedy with vampires, and a standard procedural/whodoneit. And after catching up on one of my favorite blogs, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and seeing mention of an author I enjoyed waaaaaaay back when, I also re-read a bodice-ripper romance that had ( Read more... )

This weekend was the much anticipated (for me) Willamette Writers Conference down in Portland. simonepdx and I attended Thursday though when we were too exhausted to do more on Sunday. And a good time was had by all ( Read more... )