When you hear the siren call to jot down a thought, a story, a memory, why do you hesitate? Perhaps you don’t have enough time to do it well, to go to that deep place within yourself where you can sort out thoughts and figure out what it is you truly want to say….
Category: The Writing Life
Why do we write? Why are we compelled to put our writing into a tangible form, such as a book? Will books endure or will they become legacies of a more leisure period of human history? So many questions. This blog explores topics ranging form the nature of the book to the life of the writer today.
Innovative Memoirs
How Does One Write About One’s Life? Whenever I meet two people in love, I typically ask them: How did you meet? It’s incredible the many different ways there are to meet a future significant other. For instance, my darling and I met outside just before a dramatic lightning storm. Who would have guessed? But…
Good Night Avant-garde, Sleep Well
Good Morning Innovative Lit! Innovative Literature. What does this mean? Something new, something that pushes the boundaries of what we consider literature? Yes. We used to say avant-garde when referring to trailblazing artists. It was a glamorous term, evoking twentieth-century images of highly intelligent, misunderstood yet beautiful people alone in their convictions, together…
The New Frontier of AI
Writers, Behold! Generative AI has exploded upon the writing scene. We can’t ignore it. I remember clearly the moment the large language model known as ChatGPT (Chattie in our household) entered my life. My twenty-something daughter was wandering around the family room carrying her open laptop. She meandered over to me and said, “Hey Mom!…