Most often when I return home from a week-long writing retreat I am filled with inspiration, using every spare moment to capture words and images. But this summer… to borrow …
How To Revise Your First Draft
There are three stages of writing: Fresh Writing, Revising, and Polishing. It’s important to know what stage you’re at so your writing can continue to flow with ease. If you …
An Invitation To Marie’s Writing Oasis
I’m passionate about making the practice of writing accessible to those of you who are curious about the process we use in Adventures in Writing programs. I’d love to have …
How Online Writing Groups Create Connection
We have been in the midst of restricted access to friends and loved ones. In many geographic regions, physical distancing has resulted in fewer opportunities for building and maintaining relationships. …
How Non-Judgmental Listening Improves Writers’ Confidence
Writing is about communication, about sharing our words with others who hear the power and the intention underneath what we have written. Developing strong listening skills is critical for anyone’s …
Three Ways to Make Any Description More Interesting
Are you looking for sure-fire ways to ensure your readers are able to visualize the images in your stories? There are many exercises to develop any writer’s ability to notice …
Listening To The Voices Of This Land’s First People
The month of June is National Indigenous History Month. Recent political and global events have highlighted the systemic racism embedded within our culture. Those events have prompted me to dive …
Writing Dream
Do you have a half-written article or manuscript languishing in a drawer or collecting dust in a shoebox? Perhaps it’s stashed somewhere in a digital folder on your computer. Maybe …
Writing Dream
“I’m too old to write.” I had that thought many times as I was writing the manuscript for my book. Here I was over fifty years old, just starting out. …
3 Ways Online Writing Groups Help You De-Stress
These are times of great changes and uncertainty. In order to stay out of fear and overwhelm, I’ve been doing regular daily practices to keep me grounded in this present …