PinnedMember-onlyThe Horrifying Purple Fire Snowstorm Of Bar Harbor Maine and Other WeirdnessThis podcast we’re going to talk about our town’s purple fire snowstorm about 170 years ago and other weird things that happened in 1853…Snowstorm1 min readSnowstorm1 min read
PinnedMember-onlyBe a Breathtaking Rough DraftAnd try not to freak out about the good things I’m going to get an award and it’s freaking me out. No, writing world, it’s not a National Book Award, but an award in our local community, and it’s very lovely and also very strange because it’s a recognition of…Be Brave3 min readBe Brave3 min read
PinnedMember-onlyHow To Deal With Your Inner Critic So it Stops Sucking Out Your SoulA lot of us have a critical inner voice. We might call it our internal editor or our internal critic, but it’s a bit of a destructive bastard, honestly. It criticizes. It thinks only of the worst case scenario. …Writing Tips5 min readWriting Tips5 min read
PinnedMember-onlyOde to Another Nightingale.“My heart aches,” he says as if that will change her mind. He quotes Keats, memorizes it the way others memorize song lyrics, Drunk, but not on hemlock or an opiate. Drunk One minute and the next. Keats is not pretentious enough a poet to impress Someone who sings with…Poem1 min readPoem1 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyMake Your Story Tense, Plus Editor Andrew KarreThis month I’m talking about tension and suspense in our writing and I am happy to announce that a while ago I interviewed the super cool Mark Del Franco (author), Steven Wedel (author) and Andrew Karre (editor). They’ll all be appearing in posts throughout the month, or in the case…Writing5 min readWriting5 min read
2 days agoMember-onlyHow to Become More Awesome in Just 30 Minutes a DayBack in 2019, we had this podcast episode all about what we want to learn how to do and also about competency, which I’ve been thinking a lot about lately in terms of writing and morning pages and art. Here’s the link to the actual podcast if you’d rather listen…Self Development4 min readSelf Development4 min read
4 days agoMember-onlyTrying Spam on White BreadNormally, I don’t post a lot of photos on here about our life. But, yeah, this Saturday, I’m breaking that tradition. For those of you haven’t gleaned this yet, Shaun (my husband) and I have a lot of differences in how we interact with the world and even our tastes…Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Mar 23Member-onlyThe Power of Silence In WritingAnd how to put it on the page Sound. It often surrounds us. But sometimes it is just completely and utterly gone. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a moment of high trauma (personal or public). It’s the moment when something big happens, something so big that time feels like it slows down or stops completely…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Mar 22Member-onlyHow Do You Fill the Void? And My Dog Doesn’t Love Me.Dogs are Smarter Than People There are so many times that we’re driven to succeed, to attain goals and hit milestones and then we think–ah, life is awesome. Or do we? It’s really about not being stagnant when you want to be a better version of yourselves. You seek out ways to become better…Self Development1 min readSelf Development1 min read
