Tag Archives: Writing

Keep a Calendar Journal– Part 2

Posted on January 11, 2012 by literarylee

Keep a Calendar Journal Part 1 So why would someone want to keep a journal on a calendar, writing a sentence a day for two, four, five or even seven days a week?  Here are a few reasons: 1. At … Continue reading →

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Words Feed the Quiet

Posted on January 5, 2012 by literarylee

The article “The Joy of Quiet,” published recently in the New York Times, expresses at least a part of why I write, why I promote an active and thoughtful involvement with words, and why I collect ideas for how anybody can incorporate words into life.  … Continue reading →

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Do You Talk to Yourself? Write it Down!

Posted on December 15, 2011 by literarylee

Do you talk to yourself?  Write it down.  Carry a small notebook with you wherever you go so you can be your own secretary, taking down the notes, the words, the ideas you are speaking in your own mind.  Sitting … Continue reading →

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Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 2

Posted on December 5, 2011 by literarylee

Here is the second part of Dr. Schield’s tweeted field notes recording his observations of writer’s in their natural habitat. (Writers In The Mist Introduction) (Writers In The Mist – Field Notes Part 1) WITM: I want to communicate with … Continue reading →

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Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 1

Posted on December 2, 2011 by literarylee

Throughout the month of November while I was frantically noveling, raking up words by the bushel and bagging them in a thumb drive, I mostly blogged items I had prepared before November began, being too busy with the book to bother with the blog.  Imagine my … Continue reading →

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A Book and Its Cover

Posted on November 9, 2011 by literarylee

I wanted to show off the cover that an artist designed for Marigold Man, the book I’m writing.  I wrote about the possibility of this happening here: They liked it, they really liked it….  Each day since the 50,000 word … Continue reading →

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The First Paragraphs of Marigold Man

Posted on November 2, 2011 by literarylee

(I’m not going to do this often during November, but here are the first few paragraphs, the first 990 words of Marigold Man.  I confess I edited them, something I won’t have time to do, can’t take the time to … Continue reading →

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The Synopsis of the Novel I’m Going to Write in November (and a Few Thoughts About its Impending Birth)

Posted on October 31, 2011 by literarylee

Reflecting on Being Heavy with Novel What’s happening to me?  I am pregnant with a novel.  I feel it growing, swelling inside my literary belly.  In the last few days it has even started to kick.  I only dreamed I … Continue reading →

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They liked it, they really liked it…

Posted on October 29, 2011 by literarylee

(I sent an email to my family and while writing it asked myself, as I do with most anything I write these days, should I publish this on The Life Literary?  I obviously decided I would.  My entire goal with … Continue reading →

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Hastening Slowly Through Fall

Posted on October 22, 2011 by literarylee

Forgive my bragging a little, but one reason I enjoy reading Verlyn Klinkenborg’s editorials in the New York Times in a series called “The Country Life,” is that his take on life, his appreciation for growing things, and how he writes about it … Continue reading →

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