As with any long project, people tend to ask how my novel is going. I usually tell them “it’s going,” or “it’s going well,” or “I’m having fun.” Of...

The last afternoon of the writing retreat, I wanted to go swimming, but my cold was pretty bad, so I decided to spend the last solo practice time working on the sculpture. I had sculpted the head, with...

At Miriam’s writing retreats, after listening and responding to each other’s work, we sometimes do a “prompt harvest.”  This is where we repeat phrases we heard in someone’s writing that could be good...

One evening about 2/3 of the way through the writing retreat (see previous 3 posts), a lot of the group went off to a sand dune beach after dinner. I was feeling like I was coming down with the cold that...