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February 7, 2012

Type-casting Your Characters

I credit the Enneagram with teaching me a new possibility for moving gracefully through a potentially painful transition.  read more »

February 3, 2012

The Power to Choose

Our feeling of having power or lacking power comes from our experience in everyday, moment-to-moment transactions.  read more »

January 31, 2012

The Problem of Neutrality

Sometimes the more oppressed person needs to scream and shout, express deep emotion, anger, and fear before s/he can listen to what other people think, want, or need.  read more »

November 30, 2009

Body? What Body?

People are numb because they have trained themselves not to feel, often for very good reasons, the ache of living, and they are numb because they have no language for what they are experiencing.  read more »

October 12, 2009

Themestorming Your Novel

Ka-boom!  Now we’re in the landscape of the traditional novel writing process, creating scenes and identifying protagonist and antagonist, helpers and obstacles, motivating actions, coincidences, and catastrophes.  read more »

October 6, 2009

So you want to write a novel?

What I want to say, loud and clear, is that you must find your way through the mire of advice and head-nodding, the certainty that others will have about what is essentially one of the most personal processes on the planet.  Your novel can only come about when you make the commitment to yourself to be true to your process, your characters, and the aliveness of your dream.  read more »