Uncategorized 05 May 2021 No Other Practice "There is no other practice than this practice." --Shunru Suzuki Christi+
Uncategorized 04 May 2021 The Most Important Thing, for Writing or Just Being: Doing Nothing The most important thing I do every day is . . . believe it or not . . . nothing.… Christi+
Memoir, My Creative Journey 04 Apr 2021 Writing at the Crossroads "She was pretty shattered, poor thing . . . . She'd run her life according to the prophecies, and… Christi+
Uncategorized 10 Jan 2021 Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Write Neither you nor I would expect to complete a memoir while crouching to avoid the shots of a bank robber;… Christi+
Writing and the Body 29 Dec 2020 Write to Listen to the Body Hearing the Message of Pain Some weeks ago I was going about business as usual when I noticed that it… Christi+
Uncategorized 03 Aug 2020 I’m Not Making this Up “I’m not making this up. I’ve made it down. That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense, getting down so… Christi+
Uncategorized 26 May 2020 Six Ways to Combat Zoom Fatigue Two weeks into the 2020 Covid-19 quarantine, I was feeling pretty good. I met online with my directors at… Christi+
Quarantine Stories, Uncategorized 07 Apr 2020 Quarantine Stories: Stuck at Home Go under the bed. Under Mother’s bed is a light bulb, a pink sweater, a safety pin and an umbrella.… Christi+
Uncategorized 29 Mar 2020 Quarantine Stories: Summer Camp The packing list said sunscreen, sleeping bag, trail mix. I would tame the wild woods with flashlight and wool socks. But the word swimming suit choked my… Christi+
Quarantine Stories 26 Mar 2020 Quarantine Stories: The Contagion in Apartment 30-B Unseen, unheard. Staying out of school. Exiled from restaurants, parties, sports. Daily getting fearful reports from the front lines. Waiting… Christi+
Creativity, National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo, Uncategorized, Writing Tips and Tools 02 Feb 2019 Sense and Sensibility: Finding A New Approach “I will be mistress of myself.” --Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen I wrote my first novel twenty… Christi+
Burn Wild, My Creative Journey, Uncategorized 19 Oct 2017 Why Every Brilliant Thing Is Brilliant “Look with new eyes,” I tell the writers I coach. “See through the eyes of Dream Kid. Then write about… Christi+
Art, Creativity, My Creative Journey, The Writing Life 07 Feb 2017 “Astoria” and How to Be Death-Defying “Astoria” tells of Herculean effort: the dual expedition to the Pacific coast in 1808 shortly after Lewis and Clark made… Christi+
Art, Wildfire Writers 29 Jul 2016 Teachers Who Help You Be You Thinking today about my art teacher, Lee Baughman, who has made such a difference in my creative life. The best… Christi+
My Creative Journey 16 Jul 2016 Outshine the Fear: A Writing Coach Climbs A Mountain One week ago, I embarked on an adventure I never thought I could or would undertake: climbing a mountain. It's… Christi+
