Word Painting Part One: Overview.

Photo by Porapak Apichodilok on Pexels.com It's finally time to embark on the word painting journey! In case you forgot, I'm reading a book on how to write better descriptions and taking you along for the ride. All the details are in a previous post, in case you'd like to get up to speed. This …

Retreat.

Hello. This is not the first part of the new series I promised. This is a one-off about the importance of taking time for creative retreats. My brother (the resident poet) and I took three days of his spring break to drive up to Port Townsend, a little Victorian town on the Puget Sound, where …

Word Painting: A New Series.

Photo by Steve Johnson on Pexels.com I've started reading a new book! It's called Word Painting, by Rebecca McClanahan, and (as you might have guessed) is all about writing description. Now, this is a very good thing, because description is a pretty big stumbling block for me. I tend to skip over it in favor …