Oscar Micheaux, the focus of my children’s historical novel, Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, not only broke ground as a homesteader and filmmaker, he also was an indie author. Patrick McGilligan writes in his biography of Micheaux that after receiving only “bulky rejections,” Oscar eventually self-published his first novel, The Conquest: The Story …
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche This post is for a friend who is struggling with her writing at the moment. Sometimes we all feel like chucking it in. We think about how much easier our life would be without the urge to write, the need …
I am patiently waiting for my husband to finish reading Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, so that I can have my turn. In the meantime, I guess I’ll make some oatmeal. After enjoying the most smooth, richly textured hot breakfast cereal imaginable on our trips to London over the years, I finally decided to …
As I get ready for a series of posts this month about Oscar Micheaux, I was very happy to see this notice from the latest issue of South Dakota Magazine:
Time, time, time See what’s become of me, while I look around for my possibilities… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd4QJBEMvk] It’s the springtime of my life. I’m not sure I felt that way before doing this retrospective exercise of creating a 2011 writing timeline. I wasn’t looking for moments of success, necessarily—instead I focused on moments that seemed important …