• Sundry Posts

    Writing Through Fear

    This quote by Natalie Goldberg has gotten me thinking about my writing a lot lately. Where am I going with my work? What is my purpose in my writing? So many thoughts and questions. The novel I’ve been working on is stalled. I’m not sure where to go with it. I’ve been reading Annie Dillard’s, “The Writing Life” and one of the her thoughts is that when this happens, something is fractured in the story. There is something wrong with it. Am I being too nice in my writing? The main character in my novel is a teen who has lost everything, which as you can imagine, changes her world.…