Writer’s Musings
Write Your Life Workshop
It's in a drawer, it's in a box in a closet, maybe it's on your computer. It's your memoir and you're ready to finish it. Here's your chance. I'll...
First Mermaid Impression
The first time I wrote about mermaids was in 1998 while taking a class called Women and Oral Tradition at the University of New Mexico. The essay...
A Mermaid in My Garden
Although the mermaids insisted I start writing their stories in 2004, an interest in mermaids had already infiltrated my life, probably around 1992....
Herding Words with Stream of Consciousness Writing – Part Two
Stream of consciousness writing is the doodling of writing which may include doodling along the margins, and even sketches reaching behind...
Herding Words with Stream of Consciousness Writing – Part One
Sometime in the 1980s I remember reading an interview with Paul McCartney, legendary musician and songwriter, about his songwriting process. In...