From the Newsletter: On Brainstorming

“Idea generation is about quantity, not quality. Multiplication, not subtraction. Editing comes later. The goal of brainstorming is to walk out with buckets of ideas, not one precious idea perched on a pillow.” ― Sam Harrison, Creative Zing! Spark Your Creativity & Powerfully Present Your ideas Dear Writers, Friends: I am in that exciting place known…

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Goodbye 2022! Hello, 2023!

Last night, I asked my son, Elliot, what his word for 2023 was going to be. (He gave me the look that said: Mom. I do not do these kinds of things.) And then, when I didn’t drop it, he thought about it and chose EXPAND. In 2023, he wants to expand his social circle,…

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From the Newsletter: Discouraged? Let’s get back on track today!

Oct 17, 2022 When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe   Dear Writers, Lately, I’ve been hearing…

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Eat more chocolate.

Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. -Goran Perrson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. -Abraham Lincoln Happy Happy!!!!! It’s that time of year! This week, many of…

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