Creative. I love the sound of this word. As a child in the forties and fifties, I don't think I ever heard it. In fact, the first emphasis on being creative that I encountered was in the late nineties when I read, then taught, Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Reading Cameron opened my eyes to …
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Why don't we as nurses stand up for ourselves in the public sphere? I'm proud of the action of my friend, Marianna Crane, nurse practitioner and writer. Read her story and be inspired to act yourself.
From Pigtails to Chin Hairs: A Memoir and More is the captivating title of blogger and humorist Becky Povich's new book. As a fellow writer and blogging friend, I'm thrilled she's made it this far and am happy to support her in her next goal of getting her book published. If you recall my story …
The New York Times reported yesterday that people in Newtown, CT, do not know the right thing to do now after the tragic loss of lives. But, as I thought about this last night, I knew the right thing for me to do today, on this primarily weekly blog post, was to extend my sympathy and …
With several friends starting to write the 50,000 word November novel today, I'm feeling lost and empty. Two years ago, I wrote one and thrived on almost every minute of letting my muse go wild. Two years ago yesterday, while my husband and I were driving back to Chicago from our daughter's out of state, …
Think about writing the November Novel. Only 1667 words a day. For encouragement read Chris’s blog posted above. I wrote one a few years ago and some day I will get back to it for revision and edit. It was a lot of fun! Lois
Well it seems I have been blogging less to get ready for the Magic Month of November. You know ‘National Novel Writing Month‘. How do I prepare? Pretty much by reading everything available for advice and direction. Thinking about chapters, beginnings and endings and of course middles. Its the middles that have me in awe and I am pretty curious as to how I will handle it.
There are those of you that are already wonderful writers – well I guess pretty much everyone in my FITFS group of heroes. So I got to wondering if any of the NANOWRIMO creations have ever been published. Guess what? Lots have so I am including the link here and also listing them below. Because guess what?
When I need encouragement. When I need hope. When I need to know success is possible. Well – all I have to do is…
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I"m working on a speech to nurses about why we should write our nursing stories. I came up with a host of reasons, twenty-three to be exact, but the one that grounds all the other reasons I read in Carolyn Heilbrun's Writing a Woman's Life, published in 1988. This book is a classic because in …
One hundred years ago tomorrow, the first cornerstone of Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago was laid on a dirt road not yet named Michigan Ave. There was no way then to know that one day the church would be in the middle of the Magnificent Mile. Today, a second cornerstone was laid. This time for …
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In Part 3 and the last of this series, I'm happy to tell you about a really fun memory from living in Lafayette, Indiana, from third through seventh grade--swimming in the Columbian Park pool with my friends on summer afternoons. The pool was very large and round. The deep part was in the middle. The …
In Part 1 of this series, photos of my childhood home in Lafayette, Indiana, fifty-eight years ago and now, prompted many memories, all which could spin off into stories perfect for writing a memoir of that period. Today, the photos are about the schools and church I attended during those years from third through seventh …
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