by Elizabeth | Nov 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
“A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.” Don Roff This morning I remembered my own advice to my students: Write badly. You’ve heard it before (famously, Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts), but have you ever tried? Really tried? Do your best to...
by Elizabeth | Sep 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
We came home and exploded across the house—library manga, art supplies, laundry, dishes, groceries, leftover bits of food, the dog’s disintegrating toy. I thought entropy was the move toward disorder, the necessary unraveling, though in All the Light We Cannot See...
by Elizabeth | Jul 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
My first book was published by a prestigious New York publisher (FSG) when I was twenty-eight years old. I’d always loved teaching, and was already teaching at community colleges and privately. Instantly, I became a mentor. I taught a group of women mostly twenty to...
by Elizabeth | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
There are three key elements I would venture to say you must engage to be a writer, to produce your creative body of work, your stories, your book, and to find your voice in the world. First, you must write. You must—by reading primarily, and through community if you...
by Elizabeth | Jul 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’ve been listening to guided meditations lately as part of my morning writing and meditation practice, and it’s led me to a more subtle understanding of the idea of following your breath. Every time I hear that phrase — “follow your breath” — I find...
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