Destination: denouement

That beautiful moment, when the word you need flows effortlessly onto the page. The perfect irony, when that word is Sisyphean .  ...

It’s Friday, and the weekend looms ahead of me, filled with that most excruciating of experiences:  the getting of feedback.  I’ve submitte...

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull  of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~ Rumi

After filling myself with that unique blend of inspiration and wonder that comes from attending a fabulous writers’ group, I had a tiny, ef...

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. ~ Richard Bach

A few weeks ago,  I went along to one of my writers' groups, the first I had attended in several months.  One of the writers (whose fer...

“Clary, you’re an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don’t. It’s your gift, to see the beauty...

Further to The Sleep Eaters , in which four "increasingly disturbed" creatives have volunteered to be locked up. surveilled, and...

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point ...

Recently I found this intriguing little snippet: Writers and artists are experts at imagining and creating the lives and worlds of o...

3,500.  No, this isn’t the title of an upcoming sci-fi series on telly. It’s not the number of days until Armageddon (though, I suppose, i...

I seized an opportunity recently, and I’m glad I did. I chose to drag myself out of bed on a Saturday morning (which is just as diff...