Tag: Goddard College
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Promises to Myself, Blogging, and Passion…
When I decided to self-publish my novel I knew that I would have to set up a website on which I would post blogs. The basis of any website involves dispensing useful information. We do this through writing blog posts. Much like fellow classmates in my MFA Program in Creative Writing at Goddard College when…
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Commitment, The Number 8, and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity…
A novel, the first draft of which I wrote 8 years ago, has come together. Wow! It hit me like a ton of bricks. I’m so excited and obsessed with this revision, like with none other. It’s such a wonderful feeling to have something that you’ve been holding, and for such a long time, on…
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Loosening Up
I tried many exercises in the various writing groups in which I participated before entering graduate school, and working towards earning my MFA. None left an impression, or stuck with me. This is not to say the exercises held no merit. Instead my focus lay severely on learning to write, as in craft a decent…
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How Often Do You Write?
This question always seemed to come up when I was attending writing conferences and workshops. Participants and fellow novice writers like myself directed it to the workshop leaders, published authors. The answers the authors offered were as varied as the authors themselves.
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…
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What I’m Reading…
Though I write literary women’s fiction focused on African American women and men–mainly wives and husbands–I love to read historical fiction set in the Victorian era of England and Europe. Also men were men, and women were women. And like us today, they were flawed. It was okay to be married back then. No one…