I was talking to a new writer friend recently and we got into a discussion about the insecurities and doubts that hold us back. And…
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Category: The Process
Whenever I’m going through an emotional downswing, my therapist asks me how my writing is going. I find this more than a little ‘kick me…
I’ve been dealing with a rather unfamiliar feeling lately: enthusiasm about my own writing. If you keep up with this blog (and, really, it’s not…
In our session this week, I told my therapist that my new writing group has saved me – hyperbole, in a physical sense, but she knows…
Wowwwwwwww it has been a long time since I’ve posted here. I can’t believe the last post I wrote was about getting that job…
This is my favorite embroidery I’ve ever done – on an aesthetic level but also on a personal one. It’s something I struggle with a…
Note: When I opened the Word doc I type my blog posts in – never underestimate my laziness when it comes to capitalization – I…
A few months ago, when I was neck-deep in new hope that I might actually finally finish this book, I was telling my boyfriend about…
When I began my MFA in Creative Nonfiction, I sat there in the first class and tried not to visibly sweat as my classmates went…
It started with a ‘Facebook Memory,’ one of those blasts from the past Zuck likes to throw into my newsfeed like a perfectly weighted spear…