by Carolyn | May 24, 2014 | Ms. Persephone, Searching for Persephone
I’m obsessed with words. Writing is a practice of revealing what’s at the core. When I was doing the final edit to send my novel manuscript (“Searching for Persephone”) to the literary agent, the edit that I call the Crisp and Clean Edit (following...
by Carolyn | Mar 23, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
If someone told you now that you have more leisure time than ever, would you believe them? Or would you, as working mother Brigid Schulte did, want to say, “You are out of your flipping mind!” A time-use researcher told her in 2010 that Americans have 30...
by Carolyn | Mar 14, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
This blog post originally appeared March 16, 2014, in the Sunday Journal and at abqjournalsage.com. In the eternal conversation about work-life balance, the Harvard Business Reviewthis month introduces a new round with its cover story, “Manage Your Work, Manage...
by Carolyn | Mar 9, 2014 | At Sage Magazine, Fiercely Feminine, WHAT I'M WRITING NOW
This story originally appeared in the March 9 print edition of the Albuquerque Journal and the Sage magazine website at abqjournalsage.com. March is Women’s History Month, and as March 8 was International Women’s Day, plenty of stories about fascinating...
by Carolyn | Jun 6, 2013 | Free Conference Calls for Writers, Mindful Writing, The SoulFire, THE WRITING SPACE, WHAT'S NEW
Every first Thursday, Terry Price and Carolyn Flynn kick off a whole new month of blissful writing with a talk about Inspiration. We hope you’ll use the ideas we discussed today on The Writing Life: The Free Weekly Conference Call for Writers in your writing...
by Carolyn | Feb 28, 2009 | Mindful Writing, THE SERENITY MOVEMENT, The SoulFire
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: THE FIVE TIBETAN RITES One of my 9-year-old twins is an early riser. Paul is up the minute the sun pulses over the mountain. Grace, on the other hand, likes to sleep until the last possible moment. It takes some doing, but once she wakes up, she’s...
