Music to write by…
I've used music all my life for my creative endeavors. When I was in design school and CD's were the way to play, I'd keep a huge, teetering stack next to my drafting table. My tastes, as they still are, were all over the place but mostly I used the music to help...
Letter to Billy Bush, American Television and Radio Host
Dear Mr. Bush, I watched you on the Colbert Show yesterday. Not much has changed since high school. You are still the same, affable person you were then but now, you're grown, with teenage daughters and a wife to honor and to serve. You and I weren't friends in high...
Patience… a week or so after Daniel ****s her
I haven't talked to Daniel in over a week. "Ghosted me" was what Valentine said he'd done. Even though she said not to text him I couldn't help myself. I needed more answers. My iPhone says the messages were delivered but still, nothing back from him. Of course, if he...
TED talk, Anne Lamott, 12 truths I learned from life and writing…
https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing I'm a big fan of TED talks and I'm an even bigger fan of Anne Lamott. She has such an approachable way of talking about faith, addiction, humor, and just about anything else that...
Inspiration…John O’Donohue and The Inner Landscape of Beauty
I've listened to the this podcast several times now. I've read and reread the transcript and each time I glean a different beauty. Overall, however, I derive two foremost pleasures from this dialogue. One, just as John O'Donohue talks about the intimacy between...
Letter to Nina George, author of “The Little Paris Bookshop”
Recently, I finished reading a lovely book by Nina George, a celebrated, prize-winning author out of Germany, who has over 25 books and hundreds of short stories to her name. The book, The Little Paris Bookshop, was so immersive that I've been motivated to pen a...
Being single is awesome… here’s proof
I'll admit, I fall down in the single department. I neither particularly enjoy it nor do I crave it. And before you ask me, yes, I've been to movies, concerts, dinners, and even taken trips as a single person. So there. I can do it, I just don't love it. I want to...
Inspiration of the Week – Dwell Magazine
Patience truLove is an architect and a lover of all things art and design related. She grew up in the art world, as her father has an extensive collection that spans a historical spectrum of several hundred years. From her middle school years, he's been more involved...
Words to live by…
First drafts are always horrible and ugly. Don't worry about that – it's the same for everyone. Just remember that the first draft is as bad as the book is ever going to be, and if you keep redrafting, one day you will look at your horrible book and realize that...
Writer’s advice…
In the middle of mega-time with my kids and barely a moment to myself, I hardly feel like the person who should be dispensing advice, much less the writer dispensing advice. But I'll tell you what I've been thinking about lately. THIS IS HARD. Not in the traditional...
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