by Marilyn | Jul 13, 2018 | Writing Women's Lives
Hello writing sisters, It’s been a while since I touched base with you! First, I was busy devoting extra writing time to my submission for the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where I’ll be attending the post-graduate writing conference in August. I’ve...
by Marilyn | Sep 27, 2016 | Writing Women's Lives
Hello, writing sister! The mums are in bloom here in Central Virginia. Their earthy scent brings to mind sweaters and scarves and school. I have always loved school. Not the mundane parts—those horrid clicks and grades and rules—but the learning parts....
by Marilyn | Aug 22, 2013 | Book reviews, Memoir, Sexism, Silencing, Truth, Writing Women's Lives
When people ask me what I do as a writing coach, I tell them that I show women writers who are done being silent how to free their authentic voice so they can take “center page” in their writing and in their life. I’ll admit I love a good pun, and while my puns...
by Marilyn | May 29, 2013 | Conscious writing, Truth, Writing Intention, Writing Time, Writing Women's Lives
This past March, while at AWP’s annual writing conference, I received confirmation that the tumor removed from my left breast two weeks prior was in fact cancerous. The cells were early stage and noninvasive, but the surgery had not yielded a clean margin. A month ago...
by Marilyn | Jun 4, 2012 | Silencing, Virginia Woolf, women's literary history, Writing Women's Lives
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Muriel Rukeyser once asked then said, “The world would split open.” My world split open last Thursday night when I taught the first Writing Women’s Lives™ class at Riverviews Artspace in Lynchburg,...
by Marilyn | Feb 23, 2012 | Writing Women's Lives
It’s official. Writing Women’s Lives™ is launched. The cork has popped. The beginning has begun. And here you are. Exactly where you should be. At a site devoted to women’s writing and women’s lives and the spark that ignites when women write their lives. So,...
