Lynn Fisher - Write Where I Am

Latest Article, Central Minnesota Women

  I have been fortunate to meet some pretty creative and accomplished women in my job as a writer for Central Minnesota Women's magazine. My most recent article is about Medical Aesthetic Nurse, RN and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Susan Schneider, and Rejuv Medical of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Click here for the December/January issue. The story begins on page 18.  

Enjoy! 

One Of My Favorite Books On Keeping A Journal

Talking to paper is talking to the divine. Paper is infinitely patient. Each time you scratch on it, you trace part of yourself, and thus part of the world, and thus part of the grammar of the universe. It is a huge language,but each of us tracks his or her particular understanding of it.

From A Walk Between Heaven and Earth

I bought the book "A Walk Between Heaven and Earth, a personal journal on writing and the creative process" by Burghild Nina Holzer, back in 1994 and have since recommended it thousands of times. Only 124 pages, this book has had a profound influence on my journaling life, perhaps more than any other. 

As I look through pages and pages of my journal that I wrote over the years, I see it is a constant search for the clear voice of the drum.

The book documents a time span from the fall of 1987 to the summer of 1988 and is both personal journal and insight into the writing process that is, at times, breathtaking. 

I highly recommend it to anyone wishing to start or expand a daily writing process. 

Sadly, B. Nina Holzer has not written any other books, though I've put myself on almost every publisher waiting list just in case she does.

If anyone knows what has happened to MS. Holzer, please let me know. I'm a huge fan.

Yes, Chocolate helps.

I'm trying to keep the sugary writing fuel to the weekends , but when that time comes...out of my way!

I'm at 8000 words in the NaNoWriMo challenge, that for week three is really nothing to write home about, however, it is 8000 more words than I would have written. Normally, I would be journaling...or otherwise enjoying some time off from writing articles for the magazine that I work for (and by the way I have a new article coming out soon), AND Christmas shopping. I'm one of those that likes to get a little shopping done early, in case I'm assigned a story as it messes with my free time.

Instead, I have thrown myself headlong into the last week (I will continue, NaNoWriMo will end the end of November) of NoNoWriMo, in hopes of at least having a decent word count to end things with. I have NO hopes of winning this thing. As I said when I started I only wanted the fun and challenge of participating, and as I sit here with Dunn Bros tall tropical green tea and the chocolate truffle muffin, pile'n on the words, I feel like I've accomplished that.

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Last fall I joined that Altered Book Round Robin started by Roz Stendahl as a part of her Artists Journal Consortium. You can see the results of the challenge here.

Week 1, Check

  Imust be the tortoise in the whole racing scenario. I've always started slow at everything, telling time, adding, tying my shoes...and now this.

My friend Maery, in photo, is SMOK'n me at this NaNoWriMo thing, and the only reason that my other friend Sue hasn't, is because she's been far too busy to start yet.

Apparently there has to be some putting the petal-to-the metal here and now.

It would have been helpful if I hadn't had a class at the Sewing Expo, that I had to take or lose the tickets. Last year at this time I had the flu and missed a class that I had signed up for, so they held the tickets for me for this year. Two things happened that I didn't anticipate, A) they stopped furnishing sewing machines so I to dig out my ancient, feeble, hardly sews a straight line let alone a zigzag, massively heavy machine and get it in running order, quick, and B) Oh yeah, I'm writing a book.

It's true, Act One is in actual existence on my laptop...and safely backed-up onto several disk-like thingys. It's WAY too short, but it's here and tonight while I sit with Maery, and our Panera coffee and tea gets colder than any other coffee/tea on earth, I will attempt to pile on another 1000 words or so. I'm only a little over 2000...yep, I'm a slacker, it's that whole tortoise thing I'm sure.

 

The November Project

 

 

November has finally come and it is full of so much possibility. I have committed, in a low-key sort of way, to working toward a novel in the month of November.

I say "working toward" because saying that I'm writing an entire novel in a month sends shivers down my currently overworked spine. But, regardless of my state of freaked-outedness, I'm do'in this thing.

My goal instead of 50,000 words, as prescribed by the fine folks at NaNoWriMo, is to write as much as I can and be happy with that. I'm absolutely going to try to "work toward" 50,000, but I learned from the last time that I did this...don't burn yourself out too early.

So, if I end up with a novel...yeah Lynn! If it's a short story....YEAH LYNN!

 

This year I'll be checking in with a few buddies, Sue, and Maery, and some cy-ber writers I know...in hopes to stay focused and on track for the entire month. I'll continue to post but it will only be short updates on how I'm keeping up...and hopefully, that I finished.

So, if you're writing a book this month, good luck to ya!

Go Minnesota NaNo-ers (or is it NaNo-ists?)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!