writing life
Self-editing or Editing the Self?
I just returned from a trip out east visiting old friends and mentors at my MFA program. I also toured the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. I’ve struggled this summer with my writing, or rather, my inability to sit at the desk and make anything worthwhile happen. After near misses and big rejections, though there have been some acceptances and publications too, I’ve lost confidence and am having trouble finding that spark to light the way forward.
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creativity, editing, failure, Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, writer's block, Writing, writing lifeSometimes Spirit Glows
It was the end of a long day of speakers at the Mazza Museum. All spectacular in their own way. Everyone was tired, but happy to end the day with one last voice, an elderly man in his 90’s, an illustrator, artist, legend: Ashley Bryan. He took the stage slowly, then smiled, raised his arms, and the magic began.
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Ashley Bryan, Children's Books, Illustrators, Little Cranberry Island, Maine, Mainely Writers, Mazza Museum, Writing, writing lifeWho I am
Athens Library Author Fair
As part of The Lamplighter 2015 Artist Writer Mashup, I have been asked to answer a few questions about myself:
Who are you?
What experience do you have writing?
How did you find Lamplighter?
What do you expect to accomplish while participating in the project?
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#AWM2015, #Fiction, #NaPoMo2015, #Nonfiction, Lauren Clarke, Patrick Doyle, Poetry, Solstice MFA Program, Women writers, Writing, writing lifeWhy I Am Not an Artist (What?!?)
I’ve been missing from this site all winter. I did so well last year, posting once a month, but the cold, dreary months did me in. I spent much of January, February, and March huddled under blankets on the couch, upstairs in my bed, or at my desk working on poetry projects (with gloves). But the birds are singing spring and those poetry projects are out in the world trying to find a larger audience, and April is the time each year when I begin new things, when the creative juices for new projects begin to flow.
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#AWM2015, #Fiction, #NaPoMo2015, #Nonfiction, art, Lamplighter Magazine, Lauren Clarke, Patrick Boyle, Poetry, Writing, writing lifeWhat I Call Myself
Well, I’ve done it again. Waited until the very last day of the month to post here, but it’s not because I haven’t had anything to say. I’ve just been saying it other places. (Read more…)