Feb 19, 2022 | Writing Life
I am always encouraging the writers I work with to embrace their passions–find what you love, what brings you alive, and write about it with zest. For the past few years I have been following my own advice, returning to my childhood love of horses and riding. It...
Feb 26, 2021 | Writing Life
What is luck, really? Here’s a provisional definition: luck is an unplanned positive experience, in which something good happens to us, seemingly by chance or at least without effort on our part. Here’s the thing: I believe that the magic gleam of La Fortuna beckons...
Jan 29, 2021 | Writing Life
On the elemental journey of purposeful memoir, the element of FIRE stands for both our PASSIONS and our CHALLENGES. When you explore your life story through the lens of fire, you are looking for the passions that have blazed in you since early childhood, and...
Oct 2, 2020 | Writing Life
What happens when the narrator and the protagonist are one and the same? When you’re writing a novel, you have a huge blank canvas with which to create your character portraits. Limited only by the reach of your imagination, you can create any character, as long as...
Aug 15, 2020 | Writing Life
Transmuting the “immutable givens” of childhood through the alchemical power of purposeful memoir Mainstream communication does not want women, particularly white women, responding to racism. It wants racism to be accepted as an immutable given in the...
