From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Notebook – why you need one

by Elly Danica

Everyone who writes or wants to write needs to carry a notebook and pen. It doesn’t matter whether you write notes to yourself, grocery lists or ideas–you need a notebook with you at all times. Ideas can be flighty, if you don’t capture them when they land, they’ll be gone, too often for good. You [...]

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"Childhood is a branch of cartography."

by Elly Danica

“Childhood is a branch of cartography.” Michael Chabon in an essay called “Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood” in the July 16 issue of the New York Review of Books. Cartography, the science of map making suggests an interesting way to think about memoir writing. What we are making when we write a memoir [...]

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The Writing Life – Write now!

by Elly Danica

To write, you need so very little. You need an honest heart. And some paper. – Heather Sellers, Page After Page Writing, as too few of us seem to remember (I include myself in this), is first of all a practice. Something we need to do every day, like brushing our teeth. Without practice, writing [...]

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The writing life

by Elly Danica

The older I get the more important balance becomes. I have less room for over-indulgence in things that aren’t good for me simply because my body takes longer to recover from any badness. It’s a fact of life, but in many ways also a relief. It is relatively easy to notice when my body isn’t [...]

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