Mad in Pursuit
Writing about Writing
Childhood
The Ignorance of a Child Author A tragic tale of my own making. Also in Found In My Journal, a Medium publication, 19 Sept 2021.
Tossing Away that First Novel Reinterpreting our personal narratives. Also in Found In My Journal, a Medium publication, 24 Sept 2021.
Underground Athletic Club Era
TRIBE OF THE BREAKAWAY BEADS, Chapter 34. "Growing Her Own." How I began writing novels again in my forties. Audio on Soundcloud.
Becoming a Novelist by Night: Fresh air for the midlife doldrums. Also in Crow's Feet, a Medium publication, 13 Sept 2022
Mad in Pursuit: Secret (and Post-Secret) Online Diary Era
Confessions of an Internet Diarist. By trying to be someone else, I discovered who I was. (Published 9 Sept 2021, in Found In My Journal on Medium). Audio version on PRX (distributed by PRX on the album Media/Tech/Art: Art On The Streets And Life Online, 2009) and Soundcloud.
On-Demand Memoir for 3AM Googlers. Online memoirs can be a resource for others who find themselves in your story. (3 Aug. 2009)
Handwritten Journals
My Journal-Writing Ritual: 9 Tips from 19 Years (Published 30 Nov. 2022 as Newsletter No. 5)
Tribe of the Breakaway Beads Era
Challenge: Make a Book from Years of Blog Posts The evolution of ideas is no quick process, but worth the time (Published 10 Oct. 2022 in The Writers' Co-op a Medium publication; updated Mar. 9, 2026)
Kitty's People Era
Challenge: Publish A Book in Your 70s Why go to the effort of self-publishing a book in my seventies? (Published 22 Aug. 2022, in Crow's Feet a Medium publication)
The Magic of Maps in Storytelling. So many insignts come from plotting houses, business, churches, institutions on a map. (24 Feb. 2023)
Worldbuilding with OneNote. You need a place to assemble all your notes and multi-person timelines. For me it was OneNote. (8 Feb. 2023)
The Fabric of Fact and Imagination. Finding the story often demands that you make leaps of inference between discovered facts. (25 Jan. 2023)
How to Spin History into a Good Family Yarn About writing in deep third person. (23 Aug 2023)
How I Finished My Epic Family Saga A plague project turned into a labor of love — and a book was born. (9 Aug. 2023)
