by toby | Jun 22, 2015 | The Writing Life
Having a little time to myself today to reflect, I considered why I'm blogging in some more depth and thought I'd share 6 great reasons I thought of to blog your vacation, and why I'm doing that with ours. Yes, it's extra work. It can be challenging to find internet....
by toby | Jun 14, 2015 | Life
The Norse goddess seems to glow in the light admitted from the high, sunshine-filled windows in this, the last of my lessons from life drawing. It would be hard to find depth on her perfectly-done marshmallow goldenness if it weren’t for the light source slightly...
by toby | May 15, 2015 | Life
I returned to lessons from life drawing #5 this week after taking off (with my sister) for a persistent sore throat that threatened contagion, and frankly, I needed a break. Instead of class last week, I spent the day at my computer, happily concocting my first spy...
by toby | Mar 23, 2015 | The Writing Life
Cheryl Strayed hiked 1100 miles alone. And she didn’t just do that, she wrote about it in a gut-wrenching, unflattering, brutally-honest memoir called Wild that deeply affected me and influenced the writing in my literary suspense hike novel, Unsound. Some of you know...
by toby | Feb 6, 2015 | The Writing Life
Authors write in all sorts of places, I discovered when I invited some of my writer friends to submit photos of their work spaces. Some travel light, like mystery writer Emily Kimelman who is living a lifestyle of constant travel, and some like a traditional work...