by ACCAdmin | Apr 17, 2023 | blog
Trusting the Process Lately, I’ve been waking up with the half-life of a story in my head. The story or scene degrades rapidly in the daylight. It occurred to me to ‘capture’ these story fragments – keep a notepad by the bed, activate the recorder app on my phone – as... 
by ACCAdmin | Apr 15, 2022 | blog
Can Meditation and Creative Ideas Play Well Together? I’ve been getting good ideas about a character in my next novel. He’s the nephew of the protagonist, and has recently moved to her town. I have lots of decisions to make about his situation. It’s a great feeling to... 
by ACCAdmin | Feb 15, 2022 | blog
Are You at A Creative Pivot Point? Adapt and discover. Photo by No-longer-here on Pixabay The pandemic can feel unending, and there’s a general sense among the people I know that we’re stuck in limbo. At least change is happening in nature. Yes, it’s February, and... 
by ACCAdmin | Nov 16, 2021 | blog
Nano in the Dark Hi Everyone It’s November. The days grow short, the Eastern US falls back to Standard Time, and NaNoWriMo beckons. For more than 20 years, National Novel Writing Month — the community-minded nonprofit — has offered writers of fiction... 
by ACCAdmin | Apr 20, 2021 | blog
Two Tools for Writers Two tools from my book, FLOAT • Becoming Unstuck for Writers, have caught my attention lately. I want to explore them here, in hopes that they’ll be of use. • It’s Not Lost This tool grew out of a conversation I had with a painter. She’d had a...