Category Archives: Writing craft
Writing distractions
Jungian archetypes in writing
Finding a Publisher
Writing My First Novel
The Creative Process: Imagination
The anorexia memoirs have been out for a year and a half now–a year and a half of busy todays that have helped me forget the painful yesterdays. Most of the time, those two memoirs seem as if they’re still …
Books and New Beginnings
I didn’t write down a single story until I was almost forty years old. Until that day, my characters existed just for me, to keep me company and help me through my days. Even when I began to write, that …
Coming soon…
I first started working on my daughter Elena’s memoir in May, 2009. Five years is a long time to give to a writing project, especially one full of so much personal pain. Along the way, her memoir became two: a …
To the Heart of Winter
In February, Joe and I spent a happy four days near Feldberg in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald). It didn’t snow while we were there, but it had just finished snowing, and the stuff was lying around everywhere. This utterly fascinated …
Art from life
I took this photo from my hotel balcony last weekend on the evening of our arrival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We stayed at Hotel Schatten on the Partenkirchen side, and I heartily recommend it. The church you see is Pfarrkirche Maria Himmelfahrt, …