Why am I writing here? That’s a good question and one posed to me by my husband. I have a “writer’s blog” I’ve had on WordPress dot com —
Journal
Archive · 2015 — 2024
Journal
Nine years of writing about writing, caregiving, solitude, and the odd Neil Gaiman quote taped above a desk. Kept here on purpose.
Where the writing lives now
I'm not writing here anymore. You deserve to know where I went.
You'll find me on Substack, writing as Chicken Fried Mascara. I show up once a week, sometimes twice, with pieces that take their time — the messy, tender, real stuff, because I want people to read something and think, oh, that's me too.
No one should feel as alone as we sometimes do.
Writing, not typing.
When Jack Kerouac wrote “On the Road,” he did it on telex paper so he didn’t have to stop writing long enough to replace the paper in his —
Desire and writing
I’m sitting here, knowing I have a perfectly good blog to write on located in a different dimension. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of desire to write —
Faulkner: Don’t Worry About Style
I think the story compels its own style to a great extent, that the writer don’t need to bother too much about style. If he’s bothering about style, —
Index cards
Index cards are my best friend. The book I’m working on is non-fiction, so copious amounts of these little 3×5 pieces of paper are needed for the note —
If you expect to succeed as a writer.
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. —
Thinking and Writing Writerly Thoughts
I’m thinking about writing while listening to The Beatles’ “White Album” and sitting inside on this sweltering North Carolina day. There are days you have to sit down —
Book Writing and Blogging
I’m pretty sure this post will be about the book I’m writing and the blogging I do in my other life. I think. I do know I need —