By Kelley Lindberg I can’t get enough of these guys! The Offspring at The Complex, Salt Lake City 2014 1. You’re proud of yourself for standing for 5 hours because it was general admission. 2. You made it home with both shoes. (Not everyone did.) 3. You survived the mosh-pit circle, which you accidentally got shoved […]
writer's life
Alone But Not Lonely
Yesterday, I got the wind knocked out of my writing sails. This morning, a writing friend breathed a little wind back into my sails and got my rudder pointed in the right direction again. This is why I have writing friends. I know writing is supposed to be a lonely profession. I know I’m supposed […]
Shaking Off January
Creativity. That fickle tease. On the one hand, lately I’ve been feeling like my creativity has evaporated into the atmosphere and is never coming back. On the other hand, I was telling my son this afternoon that relationships are like building computers from scratch – before you take home a box of well-intentioned but random […]
Not a Back-Burner Day
I have few hours and many projects today. I’m working on two medical writing assignments, I’m teaching a junior high class about writing and settings, and I’m overdue for a blog post. It’s a simple fact that my creative writing must stay on the back-burner today. So what did I just do? I wrote a […]
Grammar Trolling in Christmas Songs
By Kelley Lindberg Ever wonder why Christmas carols get away with language and grammar we’d never use in ordinary conversation? Of course not. You have much better things to do with your time than that, such as dashing through the snow to the grocery store to buy those two dozen rolls your spouse volunteered to […]
Ten Writing Things I’m Thankful For
by Kelley Lindberg Happy Thanksgiving! May your day be full of reasons to be grateful. Here are some of the writing-related things I’m thankful for today: Auto-correct. Brilliant authors who inspire me. Bad authors who reassure me. Chocolate, for that tiny reward at the end of a long day. Whoever figured out how to make […]
