One Woman Show
I hear all the time “I want to write a book but I don’t have time.” Or “I want to write a book but I have small kids.” Or “I want to write a book but I have to work … Continue reading →
View ArticleQuiet
In the video I posted over the weekend, David Foster Wallace talks about how our society doesn’t value the art of being quiet. He says we don’t take an hour to look at a painting; we don’t sit all day...
View ArticleSigns, Designs, Italy
(for Melinda) People say that there are no coincidences. I profoundly and purely believe that sometimes. Sometimes I think it’s an overly convenient way of thinking. And sometimes I want to believe it...
View ArticleIra Glass on…perseverance
NPR is a constant in my house and Ira Glass is one of our favorites. I came across this quote on the creative mind and what to do with it. Whether or not you’re a writer, I think it helps … Continue...
View ArticleMontana Writing Retreat Registration is Open!
Montana Writing Retreat With New York Times and international best-selling author… Laura Munson September 26-30, 2012 (sold out) September 19-23 2012 (still some spots left…) I will be leading...
View ArticleWriting as Passion and as Architecture.
After my last blog post spouting writing advice, and the appreciative responses I got…I am inspired to share another bit of writing advice I have recently given in hopes that it might help writers out...
View ArticleJournal a life.
I have always had a journal– back to 4th grade (see the pink patent leather with the lock and the word PRIVATE). The early ones are about boys and best friends. The middle ones are about being afraid...
View ArticleRe-charge. Re-purpose. Re-dux.
Feed your creativity in Montana at one of my upcoming Haven Writing Retreats August 7th-11th (Now Booking) September 4th-8th (Now Booking) September 18th-22nd (Now Booking) I’m sitting in my bed this...
View ArticleIf you have said, “I am not Creative,” Read This!
Haven Writing Retreat schedule 2015 (you do not need to be a writer to come– just a seeker…) June 3-7 (only a few spots left!!!) June 17-21 (full) Now Booking: September 9-13 September 23-27 October...
View ArticleFinding Your Voice: The 2017 Haven Winter Blog Series
Now booking 2017 Haven Writing Retreats! Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats to show the support that writers need to have for one another,...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #2: Finding your Voice
The reasons why we might feel voiceless are endless. What I hear over and over again is this: “Even if I did have a voice, someone else already said what I have to say, or said it better. Who am …...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Series Blog Series #3: Finding your Voice
I use the phrase Find Your Voice often, and people often say to me that they have finally found their Voice (I especially love when that happens at Haven Writing Retreats!)…but what does it really...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #4: Finding your Voice
As a special Valentine’s Day gift to yourself, listen to the New York Times and WBUR Modern Love Podcast series! It is full of stories of love, its messiness and sometimes resolve, its bravery and...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #5: Finding your Voice
Every year at this time, I give my Haven Blog over to the alums of my Haven Writing Retreats both to show the support that writers need to have for one another, to give myself the sacred dormancy of...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #6: Finding your Voice
The truth is that it’s actually not possible for anyone to have your voice, even if they try. At Haven Writing Retreats, we work off of the same prompts in our morning classes, and we all get to see...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #7: Finding your Voice
Writing holds me together and always has. I have said many times, “Don’t wait for the rug to get ripped out from underneath you to find your passions. When I went through re-invention 101, I’m...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #8: Finding your Voice
Please consider opening to the fact that YOU DO have a voice, and it is your own. Whether in your writing, speaking, thinking, feeling. And it is quite possibly simply waiting for you to give...
View ArticleHaven Winter 2017 Blog Series #9: Finding your Voice
Being passionate for our safety first is our bottom line non-negotiable. Maybe then, pain wouldn’t have to be gain. And walls would become doors, and pain would become passion and possibility. And...
View ArticleRoll Call– What’s in a Name
I lost light watching the last of the bug hatches, and the fish rising and the clouds going crimson, breathing shallow little strikes at feeling okay about the last of my motherhood. No more would my...
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