by mcconnell | Mar 4, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Memoir, Writers life, Writing tools
I can’t stop talking about Chuck Palahniuk’s new book: Consider This: Moments In My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different. Unable to contain my excitement, I created a promotional video for Instagram, which you might’ve seen. I’ve watched my...
by Jocosa Wade | Feb 19, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
From the time I started reading, I read across all genres— except historical fiction. Historical fiction made me look the other way, reach for a mystery, a thriller, a romance— anything to make me forget all the summers my father dragged me to Civil War battlegrounds...
by Jocosa Wade | Jan 30, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Memoir, Writers life
Here’s how it started. My intention was to go to Inquiring Minds— the local bookstore— to order a couple books that will launch later this year and snag a book for a friend. I walked through the door and there she was— Nora Ephron. No flash or flurry. Just Nora with...
by Jocosa Wade | Dec 18, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
It’s that time of year again. I’m not referring to the Holidays, or setting aside time to take stock of what I did or didn’t accomplish over the last eleven months in order to prepare for those dreaded New Year’s Resolutions. I refuse to...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 17, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
Writing is momentum. When I allow my hand to run across the page— driven solely by what Natalie Goldberg calls Wild Mind— anything can happen. It’s why I show up. Why I’ve always shown up. The first to arrive and the last to leave because I couldn’t risk missing out....
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 3, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
“The death of Don Quixote felt like the extinction in all of us of a special kind of beautiful foolishness, an innocent grandeur, a thing for which the world had no place, but which one might call humanity.” Quichotte by Salman Rushdie is a delightful modern retelling...
