writing
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Writers and their blocks, I tell ya’. Seems as soon as we’ve broken through the writer’s block and put plenty of words to the page, it’s time for the chopping block where we cut ‘em all out again. The only thing harder than writing is editing. Personally, I kind of like the rewriting, most of
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Always Bring A Book. Abab, say it with me, ab ab. Always. Bring a book. A! Bab! Seriously, I have been caught twice in the last week WAITING with nothing to read. What was I thinking leaving the house without a book? I wasn’t thinking. Well, I was thinking it would only take a minute.
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“Time” has been a recurring theme of late. From the STEM event at NIU where guest author, Mike Mullins, said people always ask him when he has time to write, to which he replies- do you have a television? The average American, he says, watches approximately 35 hours of TV a week. Go home, he suggested,
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Faced with the letter U this morning, I ran through a series of U words… and eulogy kept popping into my head. Now I know eulogy is not technically a U word, but I have often thought it would be nice to correct the American English Alphabet and U is for Uulajee may be just the letter
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It’s time to get serious about this. I’ve been wasting time and dabbling for several years now. I think I want to write. I have a million ideas. I like it when it’s fruitful. Yes, I want to write. WRITING IS HARD. I don’t care who you are, how good (or bad) you are, how
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Why is it that not only ideas, but entire sentences, passages, chapters— come to me when I’m up to my elbows in soapy water? Shower and shampoo also seem to be a conduit for brilliance. Writer’s Block? Wash a pet! Especially a large, furry, uncooperative one! I guarantee the concepts will come faster than my dog’s urge
MARY LAMPHERE AUTHOR 