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Gifts For The Writer
I met Elizabeth Peavey at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast summer workshop several years ago. As the playwright of “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” she gave her audience something to laugh about. She is a funny lady. As a workshop leader, she made her group of aspiring writers smile and laugh; if […]
Writing Plays Tuned Me Into My Creative Inner Being – Lessons Learned Along the Way
I didn’t expect to write a book in my life-time. It clearly wasn’t on my bucket list. As a kid, I don’t remember more than 2-3 books in our house. A dictionary, the Bible, and the phone book—slim, as I grew up in a small town of only 1,000 people. But, I was always interested […]
The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
A half-forgotten family story provided the inspiration for this novel about an impossible love story, difficult choices, and their consequences, and a woman who rises from the ashes of her life. When I was about nine or ten, my family lived in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, in a small-ish town not far […]
The Shaman’s Guide to Power Animals: An Excerpt
Excerpted from The Shaman’s Guide to Power Animals. Published by Four Jaguars Press. Copyright © by Lori Morrison. https://lorimorrison.com It was a rainy day in the Pacific Northwest. I lifted my five-year-old body into my father’s delivery van. Our cargo was buttermilk pancake mix, maple syrup, bacon, potatoes, carrots, and canned goods. We were heading […]
The Emotional Portfolio
The Emotional Portfolio Many of us are familiar with the term “Emotional Baggage” a label often used in a negative context to describe how some people allow the past to cloud their present and future. However, as a writer, I prefer to call this collection of emotions and experiences the “Emotional Portfolio.” A portfolio is […]
Take Me Seriously??
A friend suggested recently I write an essay about how one went about being taken seriously as a female writer over fifty. My first reaction to this suggestion was actually surprise, and my second was wonder …. maybe she didn’t take me seriously? I sat back in my chair and regarded her more closely. No, […]
Writing Through Despair
One night, around the midpoint of writing my novel, I hit rock bottom. I’d wrestled all day with a plot problem I couldn’t solve. There had been no days off for months, my back was agony, my eyesight was blurred. Some awful compulsion was forcing me to continue doing the one thing I had proved […]
What helped and Hindered My Writing
What has helped and hindered my writing? I spent a few weeks thinking about this and watching myself to see what items applied to me and what reasons I was using as an excuse not to write. The main reasons that I found myself using this last year has been my health. I suffered from […]
When A Story Just Won’t Let Go Of You
Or how I claimed a place for a story no one thought would ever sell I’m not entirely certain where the stories I write come from. I know they’re often inspired by research I’ve done long ago or more recently—something I’ve read, a historical figure I’ve never known about, a chance encounter with an image […]
Writers, Let’s Talk About The F-word: Finances
Writers, let’s talk about the F-word: finances When you come face-to-face with death, fears leave you. You know your time is up, and you stop fighting. There is a feeling on the inside…which is more real than anything else … that is about acceptance and surrendering. No matter how many TV shows and movies make […]
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