Hardest Writing I’ve Done in a While
I currently have the first regular writing schedule since I began ~10 years ago. The first three hours my kids are gone, I sit down and work on Lindorm Queen. It helps by having a straight focus (makes...
View ArticleThe Convergence of Expertise
It started out badly enough: a journalism background muddying the waters of my novel-creating. My scrupulosity — the need to cite/confirm/reality-check everything — was getting in the way of just...
View ArticleConvergence (continued.)
It is still my biggest challenge in storytelling that I cannot select the *perfect* words for a given tale and be done with my work on it. The work is the continual internalization of the story...
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God and the Faerie King
I’ve read very few folk tales or traditional stories for a while, but my understanding of that world and mentality is still pretty solid. When I read a fantasy that has fairy tale or mythic roots I can...
View ArticleLindorm Queen in Process
I chose to self-publish Lindorm Kingdom, because it had been sitting too long for me to do something else first. It was a matter of something like fairness, and also insecurity. The story represented...
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Openness and Healing
Two Januaries ago, I started taking notes on what books I was reading. This started because when I was in Antarctica (November/December 2014) and we finished our day’s work [read: quit before our arms...
View ArticleThe Ugly Side of Perseverance
Perseverance is one of 13 “attributes” my oldest daughter’s school studies each academic year. I bring in poems to share each attribute cycle. This attribute I found the perfect poem for last year– and...
View ArticleSelf-Discipline Poems
This is the first year I’ve brought poems to the Pioneer (4th-6th grade) classroom, along with the Mentors (7th & 8th), so I wanted their first experience to be fun. As in, funny-fun. Obvious-fun....
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“And the Unfortunate Thing…” [Randomistas – a book review]
This is the kind of mother I am: when I find something interesting, I want to share it with my kids. In the same way, if my kids ask a question, I’m going to want to answer it. There is a story...
View ArticleIntroducing… the New Normal
Here’s what you need to know if you haven’t heard from me in a year and wonder why some things are different: ~1 As of May this year, my legal name-change was finalized, but as of last August I’ve...
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