Author Archive: Sally Wolfe
What to do when the fire of your first draft has gone out
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the […]
Sally Wolfe: Writing Life with Nuns
Sally Wolfe tells us about the awakening of the writing impulse and her unusual relationship with the mother superior of the convent boarding school she attended in the early 1960’s. Her experiences there laid the groundwork for her much later exploration of Thomas Merton and the time she spent in a Trappistine monastery, the two […]
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