Within the White Hot Flow of Writing
That’s where I am. Where I love to be. I began a new novel almost as soon as I finished …
Category Archives: The Writing Process
Pinch Me! Writers House Accepts My Novel
I’m so excited. Robin Rue, a senior agent at Writers House, one of the top 20 literary agencies in the …
Loss & Desire, and the Search for Something More, in Life & Literature
These are the themes that run through so much of what I’m compelled to write about. No doubt because they …
Walking Each Other Home – Why We Write
I’ve reread my novel after being away from it for well over a year. I did so with some trepidation. …
Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog
“The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.” So writes Jacques Lacan, …
The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux
It’s been said that for writers the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think …
Can You Paint a Poem?
It’s a question a blogger friend asked one day in response to my comment that I would like to try …
My Art or My Novel. Which Would You Choose?
Someone asked me recently what I loved more, my painting or my writing? Or, she added, is that like trying …
Poets on Poetry: Mark Doty, Mackerel & Metaphors
One of the things I love most is writing about writing, unraveling the creative process, how the mind at play …
Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters
At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …
