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Where I’ve Been Lately
Hi Readers–if I still have readers–please, tell me I do, Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat Faculty: Suzanne Finnamore, Theo Pauline Nestor, Cheryl Strayed, Candace Walsh I loathe blog posts that begin with...
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The One Question Every New Writer Wants Answered
On the last day of the quarter, I often ask students in my memoir class to write down on an anonymous slip of paper a question about writing. When I did this recently, I received a number of questions...
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Join Me at Black Mesa Writers’ Intensive!
Julia Cameron Hi Readers, When I was writing the book Writing Is My Drink, I kept three books stacked together on my desk: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, The Right to Write by Julia Cameron and Writing...
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Find Your Tribe; Find Your Voice.
Miles Davis once said, “Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.” And while Davis was talking about music, the very same could be said about writing. Part of what I...
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Getting My Writing Groove Back
My new secret place. Shh! Don’t tell anyone! Good news, Readers: I’ve been given a new writing deadline.* How badly did I need a deadline? Very. I’ve been out of my writing groove, a direct result no...
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Try This: Create a Timeline of Your Creative History
Partial image of timeline. Download “overview” below to see entire timeline. Hi Readers, At the end of each chapter of Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (And a Guide to How You...
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Sign Up for the Writing Is My Drink Webinar!
This coming April, I’ll be teaching next session of the webinar based on the book Writing Is My Drink: A Writer’s Story of Finding Her Voice (And a Guide to How You Can Too), and I’d love for you to...
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Getting Past “Write Every Day” Writing Advice
When I was in my 20s and 30s and wanting to be a writer (and yet not quite, um, writing), the only type of writing advice that seemed to come my way was some version of Hemingway’s credo “You must...
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The Reason to Find Your Voice Is So You Can USE It
For the last four years, the place all my work has circled around has been this thing, this force, this process called “finding your voice.” It started here, really, when this Writing Is My Drink blog...
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Getting More Writing From Yourself–Without the Use of Force
I am against forcing myself to do things that I supposedly enjoy doing. I’m against force, rules, and quotas because I reliably get terrible results every time I forget that “being disciplined” doesn’t...
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