Switching blogs mid-stream

For those of you waiting to hear how I did on the writing retreat I mentioned in my last post, please go to my new blog, Healing Through Writing. It went so well I made a bunch of phone calls and extended it another three days.

I will soon de-commission this blog. I appreciate the patronage of the friends and colleagues who have followed these freshman blog entries as I cast around for my "true" material. While I certainly have plenty to say about the writing and re-writing life, an abundance of other worthy blogs exist on the topic, and if you are interested in hearing more from me on writing craft, please go to my Writing-Partner website and sign up for my free quarterly newsletter, Nibs. I'd be happy to send it along.

As writers, I think we are all trying to figure out what point of view we have that differs from the norm. In my case—like it or not—it is the way I've used my writing to heal from my first husband's suicide ten years ago. Before then I was a dance critic who had begun journaling to establish a greater sense of self; since then I have been seeking the transformative power of fiction and creative nonfiction. I did not want this horrific event in my life, yet the fact of it exists, and I must co-create with it the way a tree grows around and accommodates barbed wire—the tree can't stop its growth, nor can it will the fence to move. 

I have many resources for healing body, heart or wounded soul, but writing is one of my favorites. It is on this topic that I will now focus my blogging efforts. Point of View being the pervasive thing it is, the underlying theme of healing has run through all of my blog entries to date, even on this site—I simply want to solidify the theme through a new title. Please make the jump and come along with me!