Iowa Writing Festival!
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
I'm just returned from a non-fiction workshop at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival - a life-changing experience for this farm girl! Who knew that Iowa City could rival NYC as the nation's cultural center? On the small plane out of Cedar Rapids EVER...
Dreaming of Weddings and Babies
posted over 2 years ago, updated 1 day later | 1 comment
The night before my son left home I dreamed of weddings and babies. He joked about bringing home a beautiful Israeli daughter-in-law, so maybe that was why. But this dream had a deeper message.
Nathaniel is one of the most intuitive people I kno...
Nathaniel is one of the most intuitive people I kno...
What's in a name?
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
My pilates teacher calls me "Angela." It took me a while to figure out she was talking to me and now it's too late to tell her my real name. Actually, I'm starting to like it. I think I'll change my name to Angela Chantalle and move to Toulouse an...
Any New Mexico fans out there?
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
For a writing project I need to learn what it was like to live in New Mexico in at the end of the 19th century. Any advice?
Stuff that didn't happen
posted over 2 years ago, updated 12 minutes later | 2 comments
So there I sit, on the first of four flights that will bring me home from New Zealand, with a baby keening in the row behind. Fifteen minutes in, a vivid fantasy takes over and the plane is spinning towards earth while the mother screams, "Weeee!"...
My Demented Weekend
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
There I was last Friday, driving a rented car that handled like a marshmallow along a 6-lane California freeway. I was bleary eyed from getting up at 5:30, which was way too early for my 7:30 flight, but sheesh I was nervous. I was going to be com...
At Last Some Answers For Struggling Writers
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 5 hours later | 2 comments
I have finally discovered a “how to write” book that makes sense. (As it turns out, the book was there all along, but it took a friend’s advice to steer me to it.) Dorothea Brande’s 1934 work, Becoming a Writer (Penguin Putnam) tackles the fundame...
Dreaming of puppies
posted over 2 years ago, updated 16 minutes later | 1 comment
In a Wyoming meadow, in last night's dream, I was reunited with Cookie, our puppy who died. He ran in front of a speeding car 12 years ago. Cookie was a beautiful lab-springer mix. Anyway, I was SO glad to see him! Licks and pets all around. He to...
Request for Feedback
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Hi All,
I'm learning to write fiction - slowly, from the looks of it, and would appreciate your feedback on this story. No need to be gentle. Just tell it like it is!
Thanks!
JUST A HOUSE
Outside
Her house puts on a cheerful face, its paint pee...
I'm learning to write fiction - slowly, from the looks of it, and would appreciate your feedback on this story. No need to be gentle. Just tell it like it is!
Thanks!
JUST A HOUSE
Outside
Her house puts on a cheerful face, its paint pee...
Lies I still believe
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
One day I caught myself counting my swallows as I drank a cool glass of water after a long hot walk. A PE teacher in elementary school told us that if you took more than 8 swallows of water when you were hot you'd pass out from heat stroke or some...
