I started working with Ira Progoff's classic At a Journal Workshop today. I'm reasonably certain that I picked up this book years decades ago and found it entirely unhelpful -- but it makes a lot more sense now that I'm older. I enjoyed the preliminary exercises, and look forward to continuing to work with it ( Read more... )

As I was walking in to work this morning I realized that I was resenting needing to be here because I have other things I'd rather be doing: getting my project plan in order for the foundation fundraiser, working on some designs for my new art journal, finishing up my devotional pieces (after realizing yesterday what my writer's block has been ( Read more... )

I am happy, grateful, even giddy at having story ideas flowing freely again.

I just wish that didn't mean that I was staying up too late at night and then getting up too early in the morning in my need to write everything down.

Wolfling really likes my Star Wars fanfic that I sent her -- a re-write of A New Hope based on my group's RPG characters.

*does happy dance

I'm not going to write about death tomorrow morning. Instead, I'm going to try to tell the story of how Lohain and I met. It's hard, because there are mysteries involved, and the backstory is complex. I simply won't be able to relate anything but the essence ( Read more... )

"That which does not kill you was simply not permitted to do so for the purposes of the plot."

- Anon

This afternoon I did something I haven't done in I-don't-know-how-many-months. I sat down with a spiral-bound, college-ruled notebook and a fine point Bic "better ballpoint" pen, and I started writing down a story that's been haunting me for weeks ( Read more... )

I'm frustrated and blocked at my day job, but two publishers have already asked me to consider them when I'm ready to market my Ereshkigal book. This is in addition to the folks at my P-Con class who urged me to publish on that topic ( Read more... )

This morning I was asked to write "a happy Valentine's Day story" -- and I've overcome my initial resistance sufficiently to come up with a plot. The only question now is whether or not I'll have time to write this evening. It may have to wait until tomorrow's flight.