Kedges inspire and help you fall in love with your own big bad audacious self. Often Kedges help you live into a dream you have for your life, and just haven’t allowed yourself to live it or even imagine it. A…
Author: Jill Hackett
Interview with the Seven Bridge Writers Collaborative
Across The Waters An Interview with Jill Hackett (originally posted by the Seven Bridge Writers Collaborative) SBWC: The idea of voice in writing is a slippery one. How do you define voice? JH: Indeed ‘voice in writing’ is a slippery term. …
Women who run with the camels
That is what co-owner Miranda Innes calls women who show up in at her Moroccan B&B alone. Yet I would not recommend it for the feminine faint of heart. A woman alone in a souk with her own pocketbook in tow…
Harry’s Bar
Venice, Christmas Eve You leave the grand space of San Marco’s campo, with its four horses and St. Mark’s body, clipped as goods of war, now bringing credentialization to the duomo. Walk along the water’s edge, and you’ll feel this…
Crème brûlée: a chef/vicar encounter
Citta della Pieve, Hotel Vanucci. The waitress came towards us, whispering to herself under her breath so she could hold the message in English until she could spit it out to us. “Mr. Peter, I have a message from the…
EPC — Art vs. Craft
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There is some lively discussion within these interviews about if and how you can learn writing from a teacher. Caroline Bird expresses skepticism, then off the tape revised her position, saying, “I think you can teach the craft of writing. The art of writing has to come from within, that cannot be taught.” Talent without discipline is not fruitful, but discipline without talent lacks effective voice.
Setting direction
First time I drove a car, my father told me to get in to our aging Cadillac and drive it down the main street of Perkasie, our small town In retrospect, I am impressed with his confidence in me, that…
EPC — Criticism and Jealousy
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When you choose voice, you know someone is not going to agree with you. There will be opposition, criticism. There are two ways to deal with criticism: either get a strong thick skin, or a strong inner core.
Imposter Syndrome, for authors
For those of us who truly care about writing, owning our author-ity as an author is sometimes a challenge, both because there is almost always a writer more successful than we are, and also because there are so many pretenders.…
Software upgrades
When we grow emotionally, it affects people around us. As we change the stance we take in the world, and the stance we take for ourselves, how people perceive and interact with us must also change. But this doesn’t always…