Tag: video

  • Must-watch for creatives

    This short video was sent to me by my friend Julia (who found it through Nancy Zafris and the Kenyon Review Novel Workshop) and it’s brilliant:

  • Your work is a gift

    Reminder: Comment on the August giveaway post to win THE HYPNOTIST by M.J. Rose and/or ON MAGGIE’S WATCH by Ann Wertz Garvin. … In college I was a design minor, and as such, I was always trying to be as cool and artistic and fashionable as the design majors around me. I failed, miserably, but like the…

  • Writerly Wednesday

    In keeping with my recent theme… 1. “Like the Video? I Wrote The Book” by Tim Kreider I didn’t care for the opening, but the last 4 paragraphs really hit it home. If you’re a writer, you hang all kinds of adolescent hopes on the release of your book: that it will prove you to…

  • Pressure makes us

    First, I want to thank everyone for your messages of encouragement and support regarding last week’s post. I think downs are just as natural as ups, and that was my point: Sometimes life is overwhelming, and that’s okay. We don’t have to be ashamed of it, we don’t have to hide it. That said, it’s…

  • El mar (Galapagos part 1)

    1. I grew up on the water, but I didn’t always love it. As a girl I feared the crash of the waves, and the dreadful dip down into the sea. But I became older and braver (and my dad became a better sailor). The boat is now a happy place, an escape, an inner…