Tag: writing

But No Cigar (aka Reasons)

I put a widget on my home page with a countdown to my self-imposed deadline for finishing a first draft of a kids’ fantasy story...

Strictly For the Completist

Looking at my own garden, it’s hard to believe I’m supposed to be an expert. I certainly do let life get in the way of...

On Crows and Craft, Or Something

I haven’t run a reblog post here in a while. Usually when I do, it’s when someone writes something that I’ve been thinking myself but...

I Can’t Commit

At the first annual Iceland Writers Retreat, I got to take two workshops from Pulitzer prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks. For each workshop, she asked us...

Form of … a Refrigerator

It sounds good to call what I do “freelance.” But it really means that when there’s no work there’s no money. Today started out like...