Archive for February, 2010
Do All Writers Want to Retreat?
All my adult life I’ve dreamed of cabins tucked away in the woods or the idea of running a retreat center. As Sally Field said after a divorce, “I have a high need for alone time.” The extroverts in our lives are clueless.
The past six months have brought a new level of desire. I’m not [...]
Editing Relief
The first third of Gold Hill (working title) was a mess. Out of sequence, out of time, untransitioned, and just plain messy.
I liked the individual scenes well enough, but their relationships to each other left me with my head in my hands asking if I really could write at all.
They were so disorganized my overwhelming [...]
Finding Themes in Fiction
I’ve had the opportunity to really think about the characters I’ve worked with the past 12 months. I’m always interested in the themes that come out in a writer’s work, my own included. Writing is, at least for me, a form of therapy after all.
I was able to identify several common themes in the lives [...]
