Follow Me on My Journey of Writing

I decided to start this blog for a couple of reasons. I am hoping that it will help to keep me on task with my writing goals. I also think it might create discussions among those who teach writing or write themselves.

I plan to reflect on my interest in writing, chronicle the projects on which I am working, talk about my personal process of writing, and try to sort out obstacles as they arise.

There are a number of writing projects that interest me. We’ll see how I juggle them.

Joel McIntosh, publisher of Prufrock Press, has given me permission to use the content of the 6 ½ years of weekly blogs that I wrote for Prufrock’s Gifted Child Information Blog. I would like to rearrange that material, eliminate outdated information, and create a “best of” resource for parents and/or teachers. I won’t know quite what format that will take until I play around with it a bit.

For several years, I have wanted to write something special for my two grown sons. This project falls under the umbrella of memoir, though I plan to create it in a non-traditional manner. I envision a series of thematic essays that tell the family stories. (And there are some great family stories.) I want the family stories to live on long after I am gone. Hopefully, I will be able to refine this project enough so that it will be worthy of publishing for the general public.

There are always topics that come up in daily living that make me want to write. That’s what drove me to publish as a freelance writer when my kids were young. A subject would come up that was interesting, so I would research it. I figured as long as it was of interest to me, it would probably also be interesting to others, so I would write it up and submit it to a magazine or newspaper.






My final area of interest is fiction. I have never written fiction and don’t know if I have the talent it requires, but I would like to at least make the attempt.






I hope you will follow along with me as I pursue my interest in writing.