WRITE NOW COLUMBUS – MARCH 2021 Dear Writers: Nita here. Anyone else breathing a teensy sigh of relief? Sunshine, warmer temps, and vaccines in lots of arms (I’m up soon)
When I first began blogging in April of 2006, I thought of each title the way a poet might. The title didn’t so much introduce the “poem” (blog article) as
“Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.” – Irwin Shaw I’m incredibly fortunate. In MFA school where critiques can be brutal,
I don’t write much about the two courses I’m taking from novelist Holly Lisle because, until today, they were closed. But now THEY’RE OPEN!!! Holly’s course “How To Think Sideways:
“Books are never finished, they are merely abandoned.” – Oscar Wilde When the writing is slow, I fear I’ve forgotten everything I know about how to write a book. Everything
“Blank pages inspire me with terror.” – Margaret Atwood After listening to me whine, a friend decided to give me a copy of Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how . . . . We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how . . . . We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap
“The one thing all nations share is the fear that a member of the family will want to be an artist.” – Robert Frost My family’s fears have come true.
When Dorothy Allison asked our Goddard M.F.A. class “How do you get your writing done?” I should have kept my mouth shut. “I bribe myself with decaf soy lattes,” was
