Hey everybody, it’s Ginger, writer and writing professor, and I’m here to talk today about the dream of writing a book. I’m going to start off with another story, which is that when I was a little, little girl, [...]
It was a while after my husband left that I remembered my grandmother’s house. My mother’s mother once lived in a house her cousin had won in a poker game. My grandmother and the owner of the house were [...]
I am so honored that Lisa Tener interviewed me for her Spotlight blog on her How to Write a Book site. One thing she said about the book was that the dialogue was great. I was surprised and pleased [...]
I’m about as white at they come. I don’t mean only skin color—though that shows absolutely no trace of melanin. I’m talking inherited whiteness. And I’m talking acquired whiteness. And, finally, I’m talking about how life hates such neat divisions [...]
I’m a t-ball mom. If national elections took place in the spring, we would be famous. We who drive our kids and black and white balls in the fall switch to kids and baseball gloves in the spring. Same [...]
It took the bite of an orb weaver to make me realize the enormity of it. My husband had left me with two small boy children a couple of months before. He’d taken a job in another state. Our [...]
(Photo by Martin Lenker on Unsplash) It’s 5 a.m. Women everywhere—professional women, mothers, students, writers, dog walkers—I salute you, my fellow cave-dwellers. This may be the only piece of the day we can call our own. The [...]
When my older son arrived from college for a rare weekend visit home this summer, one of his first questions was, "So, Mom, are you still writing at four or five in the morning?" "Yes," I said, "still beating [...]
For the past few months, I’ve been blogging about the challenges of the early stages of writing a book. Mostly these have to do with fear, procrastination, and stall. And mostly the way to deal with these is to just [...]
(Photo by Annika Treial on Unsplash) I've had quite a few excellent conversations with my ADD coach, Cam Gott, about how much overlap there is between ADD and Creativity. ADD is all about proliferation without a whole [...]