Freewriting

What we learn from facing the page Yes, I did read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I even got several weeks into it before I got distracted. For those of you unfamiliar with the text, if you don’t get anything from it, chances are you know about morning pages. These are three pages thatContinue reading “Freewriting”

An Ending and a Beginning

Writing in times of change I lead a bimonthly writing group with the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group in Bushwick. It’s a wonderful time to work with adults on their writing – people who might have jobs besides writing, or they’re copywriters, or they’re just trying to get their writing projects completed. In these sessions IContinue reading “An Ending and a Beginning”

Placing the Bones

How to structure writing in a way that works for your scholar In school I never wrote outline. After researching or deciding upon what I was going to write, I let the words rush out. No apparent logic dictated the turns, no hand pushed the themes from one paragraph to the next – from oneContinue reading “Placing the Bones”