Since finishing Jenny Odell’s fascinating book, HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY, I’ve spotted a red-bellied woodpecker (twice) on our backyard birdfeeder, identified that curious grey-capped hopper foraging in the rose
Welcome to The Art of Landing’s Summer Round Up - 2019! In keeping with last year's summer round-up, this year's summer reads involve a steady plowing through my TBR pile and reading lots
Meander, Spiral, Explode might be my new bible. But before I get into why, I'll confess: I'm a structure nerd. It wasn't always this way. When I first started writing fiction (which followed on the
Welcome to The Art of Landing's Summer Round Up! We're halfway through summer, and the humidity is in full swing, lending a juicy stickiness to everything here in western Massachusetts. My social media
Back in 2014, I was lucky enough to hear John McNally deliver a craft talk called “The Shame, the Necessity, the Discouragement and the Freedom: Rejection, Failure and the Bigger Picture,” while attending