by Marilyn | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear writing sister, While I was awake in the wee hours of the night last night, I read this passage from Julia Cameron’s Walking in this World: The Practical Art of Creativity: “When we shift our inner statement from ‘I’d love to’ to...
by Marilyn | Jul 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
We all have them: hard truths we swore we would never write about. This is, after all, the nature of silencing: we are conditioned to muzzle truths society shames and blames us for. Ironically, these same subjects are often the ones that urge us to the page in the...
by Marilyn | Jun 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
I love Sonya Huber. She was my first mentor of my first semester of my MFA program back in 2009. She was also my thesis advisor my last semester in 2011. It was Sonya who introduced me to the idea that writing a memoir—book length or essay—begins with a messy...
by Marilyn | Jun 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear writing sisters, There’s magic in the air. Writing magic. The kind of magic that comes from writing in sisterhood. Which is exactly the magic we’ve been stirring up these last two months in the Writing Out Loud Sisterhood Inner Circle. How do we do it? We gather...
by Marilyn | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear writing sisters, “It felt almost wrong, really, that writing about incest could be fun. Yet, in order to follow my own rules, I had to be playful. I had to explore new angles on a story I knew by heart, but that was actually far more complex and nuanced than I...
by Marilyn | May 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear Writing Sisters, “All the valuable writing I’ve done in the last ten years has been done in the first twenty minutes after the first time I’ve wanted to leave the room.” Ron Carlson Sometimes the hardest part of writing memoir can be staying in your seat or, as...
