Photo by TopSphere Media on Unsplash I'm reading Margo's Got Money Trouble, and she has some fantastic metaphors. They make me envious, obviously, but also they got me thinking about why I love a good metaphor. A good metaphor distills what I love about books. It lets me see the world, for a moment, from someone else's perspective. Not just to see what they do, but to see how they see the world, how they feel. The last good metaphor I marked was "The walls were painted teal a

My new Sakura Notebook. It makes me happy. I started a new notebook today. It’s a gorgeous Moleskine I got in Milan, the Sakura edition. As you would expect from Moleskine, the paper quality is outstanding, and the attention to detail is quite something (there are two ribbon markers, each a different shade of pink to match the design). There’s even a little bookmark with sales copy about “The Art of Capturing Fleeting Beauty”. It says: “…Pen and paper are the best way to capt

Photo by Sepp Rutz on Unsplash When I started the collections, I was super excited and couldn't see this rather predictable slump coming. On many days, I feel like I don't have anything interesting to contribute. Today, for example, I feel like a dilettante--there are no consequences for my success, so really I'm just dabbling in writing, surely. Then I say, well, if I don't have anything interesting to contribute, then I'm just making noise, and the internet already has qui

Read this on galpod.com. On Friday, I invited you to reflect on your strengths. I started on this path a while ago when I caught an...

Read this on galpod.com. The first thing anybody who knows anything about blogging advises beginner bloggers is that consistency is key....

Read this on galpod.com. This word trail also came about while I was reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It occurred to me that the...

Read this on galpod.com. I recently finished Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. It really should be used as mandatory reading for school...

Read this on galpod.com. I've been thinking about stories lately. Mot the kind we write but the kind we tell ourselves. I put up on...

Read this on galpod.com. The school year has begun in our household, which I thought would give me more time for a post but no such luck....

Read this on galpod.com. Happy Friday! An ongoing argument with my generally reliable laptop got me thinking about the technology we...

Read this on galpod.com. A couple of months ago, I started working with Todoist. I like this app because it's reasonably straightforward,...

Read this on galpod.com. I've been struggling with doing a scene-by-scene analysis for my manuscript over the last few weeks. I thought...

Read this on galpod.com. Some famous writer said (I honestly can't remember who, and I couldn't find it anywhere) that she (I'm pretty...

Read this on galpod.com. I love cooking. I like looking at recipes, finding the one that works best for what I have, tweaking it a bit to...

Read this on galpod.com. I went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Tate Modern with a couple of friends. It was good fun (as far as...

Read this on galpod.com. I think it's important that we say it. Even if you love writing and can't imagine your life without writing and...

Last week, on the amazing Writers Group, we talked about why writing is so friggin' hard. Thomas Mann said that “A writer is someone for...

Read this on galpod.com. I've been working with The Artist's Way for eight weeks. The book itself has been helpful to me, even though I...

Read this on galpod.com. A couple of years ago (feels like forever but it’s mostly the pandemic), when I started writing fiction...

Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been experiencing recently another hit of heightened anxiety. The kiddos went back to school, and today...