Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: August 20, 2010
Virginia Woolf famously said “…a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction… “ I’d like to add that if she is a mother, she must also have reliable childcare and superb time management skills. All you mommy writers know how hard it is to scoop out [...]
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: August 14, 2010
The world is urging me to get down and wallow in its mess. World, you are not the boss of me! Have you forgotten who I am? I am she who dreams of sleeping on warm grass, the one who would like to live inside a little mole hole in the earth. The one who [...]
Posted by: Ondine Brooks Kuraoka on: January 26, 2010
In a romanticized world writing is supposed to be an organic, let-it-flow, take-all-the-time-you-need process. Ideally, yes! And oh, how we love it when hours of writing time stretch before us. Hours to luxuriate- or wallow- in constructing one sentence after the next. But many of us don’t have hours a day to devote to writing. Or we might [...]