Do you write for others or for yourself only? Fiction is meant to be shared, and I don’t know many serious fiction writers who would say that they write only for themselves. I’m certainly one of my toughest critics, and I have to love and stand by what I’ve written before I feel ready to […]
Do you write for others or for yourself only?I write in conversation with a range of historical texts and people, and contemporary ideas, and living humans (some of whom I explicitly know, and some of whom I hope will find the work). I frequently discover new commonalities with strangers and even friends through writing, so, while […]
When I was a young girl I danced in a field of wild flowers,Dreaming of a manWho would breathe life into my hollow soul.He would bring laughter and joy.I was certain he would comeBecause I had dreamt this dreamWhen I was not sleeping.One day a man came up to me.He gave me his keys and […]
Looking up at the sky, standing by the ocean, looking down from the window of an airplane at the landscape beneath – all this gives us a “wow” kind of feeling. It is sort of an awakening, which makes us re-evaluate the perspectives of our lives from a different dimension. It makes us tune up […]
Life is not all white; life is not all black. Life is black and white with some gray shades in the middle. Today is a beautiful bright day. On a day like this, you want to grow your garden, you want to weed your garden, and you want to plant plenty of seeds. You want […]