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Tag: Northern California

August 7, 2018August 12, 2018

Ready…set…cliff dive!

Going to Mendocino—taking my first screenwriting class, reading my work in front of 100+ people, hearing my novel first page blind critiqued by an industry panel, yup—terrifying and frigging exhilarating!

Posted in #amwriting, Writing Conferences. Tagged #amwriting, #MCWC, cliff diving, fortitude, Gratitude, Mendocino County Writers Conference, Northern California, revising, writing. Leave a comment
February 18, 2016

Intensity. Immersion. Whoa.

  Ever wake up and wonder how you got yourself into this situation?! You know you brought it on yourself, you chose deliberately, your instinct led and you followed, and yet here you are, overwhelmed and blown away and crazed. 10 days to go on the novel edit. 40? 50? pages more. 3 weeks in […]

Posted in moving, Writing, Settling in CA. Tagged #amwriting, Choice, Northern California, novel, Settling in, writing. 1 Comment
October 20, 2015

OWC Endings and Beginnings, Happy and Sad…

I graduated! As thrilled as I am to say that I’m now the proud owner of a Certificate in Novel Writing from the Stanford online writing program, more than any other graduation in my life I’ve much sadness, too. My fellow cohort members are remarkable artists, friends, supporters.  These few dozen women (and Roy!) cheered […]

Posted in Uncategorized. Tagged #amwriting, Northern California, novel, OWC, writing. Leave a comment
September 2, 2015

On an Explore…

So, here we are.  What an extraordinarily beautiful place, almost an assault on my sensibility. I seem to be in a constant state of awe, especially on our weekends road trips; the week days are for grounding-time, or at least an attempt at some kind of regularity and routine.  If there could be such a […]

Posted in Explore. Tagged Explore, Northern California, writing. Leave a comment
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