MY TRIP TO PITCH FEST
It’s walking through one door that enables you to try the next. While writing a blog about “retirement as an open door,” I decided this August to attend a Scree...
Category: Writing
RETIREMENT AS AN OPEN DOOR
“The door is only a door. It makes no promises.” Earlier today I read about a screenwriting conference to be held mid-August in Los Angeles. The co...
FIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN WRITING ABOUT FOOD
Since my interest in writing about food lies mainly in the emotional work that cooking for, and dining with, others perform, I always begin a piece on fo...
THE SECOND BEST PIECE OF WRITING ADVICE I EVER GOT
The best piece of writing advice I ever got came from Bird by Bird by Annie Lamott. It had to do with accepting the idea of “shitty first drafts.” The second be...
THE NEXT BEST THING REVISITED
The idea of this blog hop, The Next Best Thing, is to answer ten questions about our work and then to tag other members of our writing communities to do the sam...