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The Visionary and The Toiler
Reblogged from Writing Is My Drink: One of the most challenging aspects of being a writer is holding within yourself the conflicting identities of stubborn visionary and receptive toiler. I’ve become...
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No, I Didn’t De-Friend You.
With the manuscript for Writing Is My Drink due next month, I decided to take some drastic measures in creating more writing time and protecting it once it’s established. The first “drastic” step,...
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Drink Interviews Laura Barcella, Editor of MADONNA & ME
Most women of a certain generation or two remember the time when their consciousness first lit upon Madonna. I was 23, an arrested development 23, a 23 year old floundering-for-a-future waitress when I...
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Drink Interviews Lisa Dale Norton, Author of SHIMMERING IMAGES
Hi Readers, I’m handing in Writing Is My Drink: A Field Guide to Finding Your Own Voice to my editor next week. Yay! I’ll be excited to be back to posting here more once that deadline has passed. In...
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Writing Is My Drink: The Book
Writing Is My Drink: A Field Guide to Finding Your Own Voice (Simon & Schuster) is a memoir of coming of age as a writer and coming into confidence as a, well, person. It’s my story of the journey...
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Phew, I Just Flew in from the 80s.
It was a sort of perfect storm of circumstances that led to my time travel back to the 1980s. It’s hard to tease one event out as the key, but let’s say it started with a surprise email from an …...
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What I’m (Re)reading Now: Lynda Barry’s One! Hundred! Demons!
I read–devoured?–Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons last summer, mostly prone on the chaise on my balcony. It was more ecstatic transporting than true reading. One Hundred Demons is a graphic novel,...
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On Blogging and Other Things that Last Forever
Like many of my best decisions (and many of my worst), this blog started in a mad flash of impulse. It was a warm summer day, a seductive breeze was blowing through the open window by my desk. If I …...
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A Call to Arms: “So pick your biggest, boldest, most unattainable dream … and...
“Everything happens for a reason” is an acorn of popular wisdom that I often find myself gnawing on. When something good happens, we delight in tracing back all the events that made it so, convinced...
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BL Reeves’ 26-Minute Memoir
BL Reeves’ 26 Minute Memoir: scared intimidated eyes that look down, wondering where my feet are taking me. hoping they take me somewhere new and full of life. the thing is i don’t want to see my...
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Big N Networking and Other Things I Don’t Want to Do
Hey, it’s summer, and I’m revising my manuscript, so I’m posting here on Writing Is My Drink next to never. When I have a project that’s overdue, I have a hard time convincing myself to do any other...
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Theo Talks to Mike Medberry, Author of ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Fifteen years ago, Mike Medberry and I studied fiction writing together in the University of Washington’s MFA program. Not long after that Mike and another writer from our program, Doug Schnitzspahn,...
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Theo Hosts Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat in the Cascade Mountains
Hi All, Big news! I’m hosting the Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat, a memoir writers’ retreat in the Cheryl Strayed, Keynote Speaker at Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat Washington’s Cascade Mountains, March...
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The Scoop on the Classes at Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat
“We get the work done on the ground level. And the kindest thing I can do for you is to tell you to get your ass on the floor. I know it’s hard to write, darling. But it’s harder not to. The only way...
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Candace Walsh Dishes on Licking the Spoon
It’s book launch week for my friend and writing ally Candace Walsh as her yummy, page- turning memoir, Licking the Spoon, hits bookstores everywhere. Many of you may know Candace’s work already; the...
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Experience Required: "The Price of Admission"
Reblogged from Bloom: It started in my freshman composition class. “It” being love, a crush, a longing for something more, although what that more was I couldn’t say. I only knew that after devouring...
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An Interview with Sonya Chung, founder of Bloom
Hi Readers, Today I’m talking to Sonya Chung, founder of Bloom, a new site that highlights the work of authors making their publishing debuts after the age of forty. I met Sonya fifteen years ago at...
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Where I’ve Been Lately
Hi Readers–if I still have readers–please, tell me I do, Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat Faculty: Suzanne Finnamore, Theo Pauline Nestor, Cheryl Strayed, Candace Walsh I loathe blog posts that begin with...
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The One Question Every New Writer Wants Answered
On the last day of the quarter, I often ask students in my memoir class to write down on an anonymous slip of paper a question about writing. When I did this recently, I received a number of questions...
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Take a Memoir 101 Telecourse with Theo
Interested in getting started writing memoir? Enroll in my Memoir 101 course, a five-class teleseminar that will teach you the fundamentals of memoir writing and guide you through generative writing...
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