I'm taking a course by Caroline Donahue called "Write Free." The first week was about the creative self and this past week was all about getting to know our internal critic. Yup, that's right. The little voice that tells you you're doing it all wrong. We're meant to characterize this voice, give it a face… Continue reading The Internal Critic
I was asked this past week to picture myself at a time I felt most creative. I have two instances I can think of for this: The first is me at 15 or 16, sitting in an art class with a charcoal pencil in hand. We've been given a prompt of an emotion but nothing… Continue reading Nurturing My Creativity
You know that nagging feeling in the back of your mind that seems to keep telling you that other people are doing better than you? That you could have been where they're at right now if you had just not been so lazy last week, two weeks ago, last year? Yeah, that's what I'm feeling… Continue reading I feel like I’m falling behind
My friends and I started writing our stories down when it began apparent to us that it was no longer acceptable to act them out on the playground. We passed notebooks in the breaks between classes and devoured each others' fictional worlds. Notes were scribbled and cramped into margins. Those notebooks were passed around so… Continue reading Writing is My Escape
Every writer, or aspiring writer, has heard the phrase "read like a writer." To me, that means to read with a curiosity of how the author accomplished the story they created. If the characters resonated with you, why? If the story struck a certain chord, how? If you thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of the story,… Continue reading Reading Like A Writer
Subtle Stories 