I’m still working on my book at The Hambidge Center. Only nine more days left of my residency! You requested more photos, so I’m sharing them today.
You probably know by now that I read travel memoirs compulsively, particularly those by women traveling alone. One of my favorites is Somebody’s Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa. So I was particularly pleased to connect with the author, Tanya Shaffer. And she’s with us today! Welcome, Tanya. I'm focusing on weaving a […]
I expected to write a lot at this residency. I’ve already had several breakthroughs on that front, including producing a new first chapter that I shared with the other artists here. They say it works. I think so, too. What I didn’t expect from this experience — because I knew it would include many hours […]
Continuing our September series of writer interviews, today Karen Walker shares her experience writing a memoir. Her book, Following the Whispers, is about finding inner peace after a childhood of abuse. Karen blogs, too. We connected through an online book blog tour class. Welcome, Karen! Why don’t you start off by telling us more about […]
“You've got the cabin in the woods,” said the woman who showed me to my writer's studio. She wasn't kidding. I had followed her in my car about half a mile away from the main Hambidge facilities to a small cottage surrounded by trees. This was where I would spend the next five weeks as […]
It’s not often that I read a book in three days. But that’s what happened with First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria. It was THAT good! The author of this hilarious travel memoir slash love story, Eve Brown-Waite, is with us today to talk about the process of writing and publishing her book. At the […]
Tomorrow begins my writer’s residency at The Hambidge Center! I’ll be there for five weeks, returning to upstate New York in early October. My goal? To finish as much of my manuscript as possible. I doubt I’ll complete it like I expected months ago, when I was accepted to Hambidge. I’m a bit behind schedule. […]
I was pretty annoyed at Amtrak this week for canceling my train home from New York City. But while I waited a few hours for the next available train to Albany, I wrote some quality pages. It amazes me that I can produce some of my best copy while kids scream behind me and a […]
Writing this book is a learning process, even more than I expected. There are quite a few major things I wish I had understood before I began, and I’m sure more will arise as I continue through the editing and publishing process. As I prepare to begin my writing residency at Hambidge next week, as […]
I’ve had a productive week of writing, writing, writing here in New York City. Hope you’ve made progress this week, too! Some of my favorite links from this week: First, be sure to check out blogs by some of the folks who showed up at the blog party that began on Tuesday. A few I’ve […]