By Carol Grannick on November 18, 2010
I’m “re-visioning” a middle grade novel that is very close to my heart, and it’s feeling lovely. Of course I wish I could finish it quickly. Of course I know I shouldn’t, and can’t.
The other day on a visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Zig-Zag Bridge joining the mainland to the Japanese Island validated [...]
Posted in Learned Resilience: How To Do It, Lessons From Life | Tagged revision, Transitions
By Carol Grannick on May 18, 2010
When I left my adopted hometown of New York City years ago, I flew back once a month for almost a year, weaning myself not only from friends, but from the city itself and the love-hate relationship I’d had with it for fourteen years.
In the years that passed, the mythic status of the city pulled [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life | Tagged revision, separation
By Carol Grannick on December 2, 2009
In the past month, my sister and I have spent fifteen or twenty hours a week sorting through, packing up and donating the material things of our mother’s life. Things that surrounded her with some sweetness, comfort, and perhaps grace, nothing she’d had in childhood. Things she collected, admired and loved, all part of her [...]
Posted in Lessons From Life, Rethinking Writing Obstacles | Tagged closing up parents' homes, revision
