Archive for the ‘On Writing’ Category

Writing Over the Wound

Posted: August 9, 2011 in Author, On Writing

Artists suffer. Hell, all of us suffer. Isn’t it Plato who said, “Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”? Recently, I experienced a tough hurt, the kind that aches and gathers in a dull pool of trapped tears, weighing me down. The kind only a loved one can inflict. And in [...]

The Writer as Reader: No Escape

Posted: July 20, 2011 in On Writing

Like most writers, I started out as a voracious reader. Not the kid at the family dinner table repeatedly told to put the book away–that was my sister. I came to my passion for reading much later. As a single mom with three kids and two jobs, reading fiction became my escape from too many [...]

Although I have written a blog for sometime in my “day job”, I have found it difficult to start one as an aspiring author. While I feel as though I have interesting things to share, they span the spectrum in substance from soft musings to hard facts, and in content from writing (and being a [...]