CREATRICKS: Writing Routines
What makes a writing routine successful? Routines deserve the good […]
What makes a writing routine successful? Routines deserve the good […]
Sometimes the best way to get people to hear your music is to give them something to watch. I played this new song at gigs all winter, and I knew that if I didn’t make…
I know that there must be women and men who stay home with their kids and crank out tome after tome or start foundations or make a mint selling quilts on Etsy. I, however…
I’ve written exactly one feature length movie and co-written two shorts. The feature, Pipe Dream, starred Mary Louise Parker and Martin Donovan and had a very…
Some ideas are songs. That’s just the way it is. I wrote an essay for Organic Style Magazine about sex after childbirth. Not immediately after, but, you know, at…
There was a time when humor pieces appeared on the Times Op-Ed, page. Over the span of a couple of years, I wrote about things like President Clinton’s puppy…
Cynthia Kaplan inspires instant fandom for her smart subversiveness. Though […]
The life cycle of drosophila melanogaster, / also known as the common fruit fly, / consists of copulation, which lasts 15-20 minutes, then the…
In January my older brother Paul came out without even saying a single word; / I found him wrapped around the body of another…
In physics class last year our professor talked about how dark energy / is still a transient concept, something that scientists…
Because you moved to Canada and left me here with the cat / and a few hundred bags…
The year we dissected a squid and ate its tentacles piece / by piece down at the pier next to your house was the year…
In the spirit of July’s Interdependence theme, this week’s Featured Creative is the inspiringly prolific poet, Meggie Royer.
For those readers who have been carefully digesting Steps One through Ten that precede this chapter, you might have concluded…
The lessons outlined in this chapter are almost universal. For example, if your business is suffering from a public…
I will always savor the moment: proudly standing on a flower-covered dias in a packed, Missouri Houe chamber, with my right hand raised, repeating my oath…