2013 Creative Resolutions: Getting It Done

At The Finishing Lines

December Update: Here is the last story, titled "Meteorology". It is getting there, but needs a real going-over. I look forward to a lot of rewriting in the new year. Thanks for all y...

At The Finishing Lines

Video: Inking an Epic

Video: Inking an Epic

Making Fun

Making Fun

New Goals

New Goals

Returing to Cascadia

Returing to Cascadia

New Year's Resolution: Running Into Ideas

When writer Linda Brewer feels stuck, she runs, hitting one of a few favorite parks in Tucson. “When I’m running I mull it over and I always get some ideas,” she says. Brewer is one o...

New Year's Resolution: Running Into Ideas

Seeing the Big Picture

September Update: This is really fun, people: choosing music, location and a pianist collaborator for this recital, which is December 1. The closer I get to the event, though, the mor...

Seeing the Big Picture

Long Story Short

I spent a couple of weeks on a longer story but set it aside and did this one instead. It has been a challenging month in many ways. It is still very hot and humid, and we are all wai...

Long Story Short

Write What You Know

July Update: The process for this month's story was: use some of the work I actually do for a change, and some of the experiences I have had as a mom and write something short. I had ...

Write What You Know

Halfway Home

July Update: At the year’s halfway point, I’m about halfway through illustrating the poem. I had some pretty good momentum going during most of June, cranking out about a page a day, ...

Halfway Home

How Does It End?

June Update: Quickly done, needs work as usual. I kept wanting to look this story up on the website so I could see how it ended, and then realized I hadn't finished it yet. I am det...

How Does It End?

The Teacher Goes Back to School

June Update: Choosing the music has been so confusing. After deciding to tackle an entire chronology of the cello, I quickly realized how much work that would be. I decided to take so...

The Teacher Goes Back to School

Stumbling With Style

May Update: I've always been fascinated with the idea of Northwest Coast tribes' potlatches and how they might play out in our time. I have family in Bellingham, a beautiful town, and...

Stumbling With Style

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

May Update: The weather has definitely made it easier to get outside and work. I have two projects in the planning phase at the moment right now — screening in our back porch and a ...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

The Short Story That Would be a Novella

April Update: I grew up in the Eugene, Oregon area and my brothers and I sometimes discuss our tree-clad upbringing on the Siuslaw River. I wish I'd been able to develop that st...

The Short Story That Would be a Novella