An Old Lesson for a New Year

I like to think that, no matter how old I may get, each year lived has taught me a new lesson.  More and more, though, it seems like the lessons learned are really lessons relearned — lessons learned once, then forgotten, then learned again.  And no doubt, the...

Happy/Merry

And so it is Christmas, nearly. I’m off in a couple of days on my hols; looking forward to having all my boys under one roof for a change, and to the annual Guiney family extravaganza.  As I look out my window at all the snow here in London, though, it looks...

Menage a Trois

Did that get your attention?A while ago, I began a three way conversation with two other writers I admire greatly, Tania Hershman and Lauri Kubuitsile.  Actually, it was Tania’s idea.  She began to ask us all sorts of questions about our writing lives, wondering...

The Student Life

It was a strange couple of days.  I came back from my beloved Anam Cara Writing Retreat where for over a week I was blissfully unaware of anything except my work, the work of my friends, and the incredible cold.  Here are a few photos I took of the surrounding...

To Snowflake or Not To Snowflake

A while back I promised to write a blog about this one particular methodology for writing a novel called “The Snowflake Method.” After my last post about different writing processes, I thought this would be a good time for such a post.  You can read the...