For about a year I haven’t been able to speak—something I have written about extensively in this blog—and for a year and a half before that my speech was compromised, slow and increasingly garbled. Needless to say, this has presented some...
The Hero’s Journey Paradigm: Why it doesn’t work for me as a female fiction writer
After dwelling in a period of uncertainty about what to write next, I recently plunged into developing an idea for a new novel. As always, the idea is filled with possible landmines and diversions that could sink the entire project and, as I’ve...
International Men’s Day
It is high time to institute International Men’s Day, a day to bring our full attention to the many and varied contributions to the human species made by those with XY chromosomes. What a vastly under-valued and under-appreciated sub-group! On...