maryelise555Jul 27, 20201 minthese pages make handy paper airplanesHere are the stages of consciousness when writing a book: I love it I love it I love it I HATE IT I love it I love it I am brilliant WHO...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 minspeedI haven’t been writing lately. Instead, I’ve been whisked along through my days as if I were in some wacky tornado, galloping here and...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 min how can we notI discovered some photos on the Internet, which I found sifting through one website, and then another, and then another – you know how...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 min assorted thoughts from the dilettanteI’ve been thinking lately about the often alarming matter of being much too jumbled and disparate in my interests, and have come to the...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 minbad hair = good inspirationI woke up this morning resembling Albert Einstein, my hair stuck straight up illimitably, in places it has never ventured before. Lately,...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20203 minin which i flee like atalanta and crave a pancakeI’ve been doing a bit of running, and it’s been pretty fabulous. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about it, since the last time I ran any...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 minillusion versus spiritRecently, in the midst of a debate on the process of writing, a fellow writer suggested that writing a novel isn’t magic. It is, I...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20202 minthe best story i ever ateI’ve been re-hashing my old blog posts lately, due to the unwanted appendage you might call writer’s block. I like to call it “work.” Or,...
maryelise555Mar 30, 20203 minin which self-consciousness is thrown to the wolves, and a culinary metaphor is utilizedI stared blankly at the screen. No amount of will, or begging, could make the words come – at least, not in the way I wanted. I began to...