I haven’t worked on my memoir manuscript since before I graduated from my MFA program in June. It was my final project, and by the time I was done with it, I didn’t want to look at it again. I just wanted to be done with it. Done. To not think about for awhile. I
I’m currently doing a class on The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s classic text about a path to creativity. I’m on week eight of twelve. True to Cameron’s practice, I have been doing Morning Pages pretty faithfully. I attend the once a week Zoom with my classmates, other midlife women. I have tried to do the
When I have to describe the kind of writer that I am, I most often say I’m an essayist. Before I claimed the mantle of essayist, I read other writer’s bios and lingered over those who proclaimed to be essayists. What a bold claim. What a sense of knowing what you do and who you