The other day, I read a Twitter feed about people’s favorite non-fiction books, and I had heard of very few of them. None of my favorites were featured, so I started thinking about my favorite non-fiction books of all time. These are books that I recommend constantly and think about even more. They are in …
Most writing books/blogs spend some time talking about writer’s block and how to overcome it, but I had a revelation about writer’s block recently. Writer’s block is the status quo of the human condition. We are all suffering from writer’s block or it’s equivalent at all times that we are not writing (or dancing or …
There comes a time in every writing project (or other creative effort) when most people feel the need to share their work. As I mentioned in this post, you can share too early. It’s also possible, but less likely, that you can share too late. So when is the right time? For some work, like …
While I was writing my blog post about memoirs as therapy, I googled the topic, hoping to find a relevant article I’d recently read. Instead, the first item in the search results was an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books with an ex-boyfriend of mine, who, unbeknownst to me, had published his memoir …
When the Powerball lottery jackpot rose to $450 million back in December, I bought a lottery ticket for the first time in more than 20 years. Back in college, my friends and I would give each other scratch-off tickets as birthday gifts, but I’m a grown-up and I know they are a waste of money. …
Spending so much time writing and thinking about writing has led me to the misbegotten certainty that I must know something about it. In service to my newfound expertise, I’ve written a couple of blog posts about it on my Medium blog. The first one is Write Your Own Damn Memoir and the second one …
This is probably my fourth blog and the first post is always the lamest. Gotta start somewhere, right?