It’s Not PMS, It’s You! Interview with the author
Fri, 27/08/10 – 14:04 | 26 Comments

“…for every woman who ever pulled her hair out trying to explain–for the 46th time–the importance of putting the toilet seat down, for Christ’s sake, or that burping the national anthem after every meal is not a constitutional right…

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Our Bodies

What We See In The Mirror and How We Feel About It

Our Careers

The work that we do and that we wish we did

Our Minds

Our emotional, spiritual, and intellectual selves

Our Relationships

Mates, children, parents, siblings, friends

Our World

What we think about what’s happening outside our door

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Facing The Page In The Long Gray Days of Winter
Wed, 13/01/10 – 1:39 | 5 Comments

It’s January, that cold gray endless month that follows the hey, everybody! glitz and tinsel of December.
Let’s pause for a moment while I get fully into my cold, gray, endless mood…
Okay, I’m there.
So–how are all …

Great Interview Experiment: DaVe from FupDuckTV
Fri, 8/01/10 – 16:52 | Comments Off

The sideboob & underboob article is a debate that I’ve been kicking around for a while now with friends.

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writing as a Relationship
Wed, 6/01/10 – 14:38 | 3 Comments

“Patricia Highsmith….lost her form. The problem wasn’t the supposed confines of crime writing, but her increasing refusal–in love and in work–to let a relationship happen. And art is always about relationship–to the material, …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: A Christmas Gift
Wed, 23/12/09 – 12:55 | Comments Off

Yes, yes, yes–I know that everyone is overwhelmed with the holidays.  But really, you shouldn’t close your writer’s eye at such a rich time.  So, here’s another exercise that you can do in your mind, …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The Tao of Word Choice
Tue, 15/12/09 – 13:39 | 4 Comments

As writers, all we have to work with is our words.  They’re the currency of our craft; we use them to say, to show, to explain, to tell, to create an idea or a world …

Giveaway: Readers for those with Short-Arm Syndrome
Fri, 11/12/09 – 11:10 | 16 Comments
Giveaway: Readers for those with Short-Arm Syndrome

My mom developed a vision problem when I was a kid, and I remember that it really scared me. Her arms got too short to be able to look up numbers in the telephone …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Dreaded Deadlines
Wed, 9/12/09 – 15:10 | One Comment

There’s an old saw that may or may not be a Joan Rivers joke: “Men–can’t live with them and can’t live without them!” That’s how I feel about deadlines. As someone who …

Creative in the Kitchen? Win a trip to NYC!
Thu, 3/12/09 – 13:33 | 2 Comments

Julia Child doesn’t give a recipe for Puff Pastry in her almost-encyclopedic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  Or rather, the recipe she gives is for the simple little piped (or flung from a spoon) …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Writer’s Block
Wed, 2/12/09 – 0:56 | 4 Comments

I’ve just been wandering through my ByJane Archives seeing if there’s anything there that I can do a quick and dirty snatch and grab for this week’s Wednesday Writer’s Workshop.  Just a cursory glance …

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: The Process of Writing
Tue, 24/11/09 – 21:00 | 5 Comments

There’s a signal  way in which the concept of writing as process is crucial to our success as writers.  Our writing process is how we actually do the thing.  What are our habits, our quirks, …