I heard a replay last weekend of an NPR interview with the late Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue. I was particularly struck by this quote from O’Donohue, who spoke often on leadership and creativity in corporations. … One of the loneliest things you can find is somebody who is in the wrong kind of… Continue reading Working–When It Works, It’s Beautiful
Category: Writing
What’s Important
I’m probably not going to reach 50,000 words for the novel I’m working on as part of National Novel Writing Month. Midway through, I’m just shy of 13,000 words. And I’m OK with that. I’m loving Fourteen, about a fortysomething woman who finally must face the pain she feels from having caused a
In Praise of Friends and Friends of Friends
David Cortner, who earlier this year took some of my scribblings and ideas and turned them into melanierigney.com, just finished some tweaks and updates to my editing business site, editorforyou.com. (Check it
Writing Like the Wind
I’ve got what may be the best first chapter ever written for a coming-of-age novel, based loosely on the summer I turned nine. But that’s all I’ve got; with that particular manuscript, every time