Art, Wildfire Writers, Wildfire Writing Class, Workshops 30 May 2021 Writing to Experience Life "The artist is comfortable only with going back to the way in which the chaos is first encountered—that is, moment… Christi+
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+
