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Category Archives: Creativity
There’s More Than One Kind of Writers’ Block
I don’t know why I never thought of it before, but it’s true. For the longest time I enjoyed a smugly self-satisfied sense that (due to my limited writing time or imagination or some wonderful gift) I almost never suffered from writers’ block. I made this determination based on the Read more »
Creativity and Depression
Have I ever mentioned here (on Untangling Tales) that I wrestle with depression? Usually seasonal, and usually manageable, but there are times and varieties that just eat my mind and (as a result) basically freak me out. Well, this post is a chewing on that variety. Last summer I went Read more »
Teaching Writing to Children
So I’ve had two moms in the last month ask me (as a homeschooling mom and a writer), how is it I teach my children to write. I’ll get back to you on that in 15 years or so. When I actually know how it is they learned. In the Read more »
Reading, Rabbits and Arhythmofwriting?
Eh. I’m just trying to decide if I can do “3 Rs” here at Untangling Tales without boring my delightful lurkers. So here’s your chance to tell me. I’m always shocked at the number of hits my stat-counter tells me I’m getting, and while some of it is Google sending Read more »
Atavistic Dreams
Atavism is the idea or concept of a throwback. A recurrence of a trait that (genetically, say) had not shown up in a few generations. I tripped over the term earlier this year. I’d stopped into a yarn shop to see what blends they sold of angora yarn, and to Read more »
NaNoWriMo 2011 in Review
Glad I did it, glad it’s done. 50,648 words since November 1. Happy to take a breather from creating reality. Next project is getting ready for a talk on personality theory (Meyers-Briggs, as I’ve been writing about on my family blog). It’s scheduled for January 18 if anyone local wants Read more »
NaNoWriMo 2011 Update #2
Two days left, currently at par (thanks to a 5,228-word day Saturday). And I’m sick. And exhausted. Not exactly sleepy-tired, but exstruded; squeezed out. I was thankful last night my huge “bump” had put me a little ahead, becasue it meant I could switch to consuming (from producing) that much Read more »
Failure Happens
I get nervous when I discover new things. Not particularly because those things rock my world (so much) as I immediately start to wonder how long ago I was supposed to figure this out. This popped into my novel a couple days ago: A: I just figured out I’m ‘gifted.’ Read more »
Getting Personally Practical
Sometimes I think the reason I continually return to the idea of Storytelling is because I am looking for ways to tie my story-compulsive brain back to my real life as the dedicated mother of three brilliant, sensitive children who need me to be connected to them. So, with this Read more »