Dog walking IS my creative process
Anyone who knew me before this year knew that I was not (by any stretch of the imagination) a dog walker. But life, as it does, decided that I needed to change my lifestyle stat. So I’ve started talking mile plus walks every morning with my girl. Good for her, good for me. What I […]
Bread Bread Bread!
Ten years ago I took a stab at my first loaf of bread. It was a complete and utter disaster. What emerged was approximately the shape, size and consistency of a shot-put. If I were looking for a home-protection device, I had nailed it. So for the next…oh…eight years I gave up on bread. No […]
What is it about the First World War?
If you told me in 2016 when I was starting my first split narrative, that I’d be up to my eyeballs in WWI for part of 2017, all of 2018 and long into 2019 I’d have rolled my eyes. Growing up, it wasn’t much on my radar screen. Instead overshadowed by the gilded lore of […]
Game of Thrones predictions from the airport!
After 3 days of my husband asking me repeatedly “WHO IS GOING TO DIE IN GAME OF THRONES?!” I finally came up with an answer based on reading a ton of fantasy and also as a writer. Most of this comes from writing characters and arcs. So let’s call it my “character arc/plot/redemption” theory. And […]
2019
Here we are. January 1, 2019. Just typing the words seems absurd. Even though I’ve been calendaring things for 2019 for a couple months now. While a lot of folks start off a new year with goals, I’ve never been that person. For one, I am terrible at keeping resolutions. And two, they always seem […]
A New Year a New Blog
Here we are, staring down 2019 like a freight train. There’s no stopping time. And every time I get to this time of the year I start reflecting on my life. But somehow the end of 2018 seems to mark a new milestone in my life. Two years ago, I picked back up writing. From […]