After deleting 50% of what I had originally written, I thought I had the workings of a good memoir. Because my writing was initially used as a coping strategy, I had data far too detailed for any normal (non scientific/medical) reader. I was a recording machine utilizing any vehicle available to me. Dates, times, places, amounts and names of medications were so precise you could have made bets on them and won. I worked with both an upstate book coach referred by a college friend and a local editor referred by an acquaintance. Continue reading
When I open my heart and mind, especially to the right person, in comes love. Not only is this another aside from my #journeytopublish posts, it’s a Saturday post, which is a first. I was catching up with my middle son, Scott, on the phone yesterday. One more digression, please forgive me, but for those of you with young children, wonderful and cute as they are, wait until they are older and you are having adult conversations with the people you care most about in the world. Their opinions, thoughts, considerations, concerns, new and old ideas – I can barely express how spectacular a feeling this is. Anyway, during our discussion, Scott asks about my blog.
“What happened?” he asks. Continue reading
I’m pulled from today’s Journey To Publish post by an aside. Asides are not uncommon in my life. An expression one of my yoga instructors uses often, but also teaches and lives by is: Little by little. It is a less than glorious statement conjuring images of baby steps instead of leaps and bounds. But to her credit I do not get injured on her watch and I do improve. Within her little by little framework she points out the smallest tweaks in musculature and positioning, after she has spent time isolating a particular area and making us cognizant of a muscle or motion most of us were unaware of moments before. I tend to be a big picture individual and I like to get from here to there, fast. Continue reading
I’m on a journey. The journey of a non-famous, non-wealthy, “new” face that believes her manuscript is book-worthy. Many questions can be asked of such an author:
Nowadays, being a writer is not enough. Continue reading
Wendy Karasin - Musings of a Boomer 