This is a workshop and I'm going to apply even though it's not something I can technically afford and I really don't qualify for the scholarships:

Writing Cross-Culturally, where "... writers will be provided with resources and tools for telling stories that are not their own with care, respect, and sensitivity. We will discuss representation and ( Read more... )

Henry the beagle really likes walking the golf course in the evenings ( Read more... )

I'm trying to come up with a clever and engaging way of saying that I also spent most of today sitting, but instead I just stared at the blank "Post an Entry" page for five minutes ( Read more... )

Will you think less of me if I don't talk about world news events today ( Read more... )

I realized tonight that I used to put this blog's URL on all of my resumes. Not that I've sent out many resumes in the past few years, but there it was, on all of my previous resume editions, good ol' spacklegeek ( Read more... )

I write at night, often before I blog, and sometimes if I am really into a scene it's hard to remember what else I've done today, to find something worth talking about and post here ( Read more... )

My evenings have evolved into a routine I could not have predicted a month ago: I return to my room after dinner, fiddle around a little bit on Tumblr and FB (that's typical), and then I write. Five hundred words a day, a modest amount, and sometimes it takes me an hour, and sometimes I write over a thousand words in an hour instead. And no, it's ( Read more... )

My big outing today was going to get groceries (like a hero, she whispered to herself as she hauled the bags back two blocks), and even though it was fairly mild today, I did not go out again. Meh. I had a proper walk yesterday ( Read more... )

Listen friends I am super-tired (read: headachey) today, bleh. But since that's boring to read about, here is an interesting article!

#YayHamlet: What Shakespeare and Broadway's Biggest Hit Have to Do with Each Other

It is super-nerdy about words and ways to use words to create character and I enjoyed it! Maybe you will too.

Today I found a short and brilliant essay on writing, Writing Begins with Forgiveness, by author Daniel José Older, and it resonates with my own experience pretty profoundly. Read the whole thing, it's barely two pages, but this paragraph in particular punched me in the chest:

"Here’s what stops more people from writing than anything else: shame. ( Read more... )