Leslie A. Lindsay

motherhood

August 2, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: A new project–I could use your help! Plus, Cynthia Reeves on THE LAST WHALER, the power of doing it now, old photographs, writing craft, reading recommendations, and more
July 13, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Can You tell a Writer what to Write about? (No). Also: where to submit, love languages, books about books, how to write without ego, and Lauren Aliza Green on THE WORLD AFTER ALICE
June 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Writing rituals, the meaning of home, recommending books to writers, and what’s behind the rejections + Sheila Sundar on HABITATIONS
May 7, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: You know…you really should…plus imposter syndrome, what rejections teach, Amy Shearn on her new epistolary novel, DEAR EDNA SLOANE, shopping local (for books!), art + architecture
April 12, 2024

Musings & Meanderings D.J. Green, the geologist writer talks about finding home and yoga-as-muse in NO MORE EMPTY SPACES, plus me feeling old –slang, Richard Marx, how to support local arts, book bans, and more
March 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Quarter-Year Check-In, Writing Advice, Julia Malye’s new historical fiction PELICAN GIRLS, about Baleine Brides & survival, how she would be a visual artist if not a writer; do’s & don’ts of writerly self-promotion, how to write for Modern Love, more
January 8, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Determining your obsessions and what’s a chronic conflict, anyway? Plus, Kate Brody on her debut thriller, RABBIT HOLE; top reads of 2023, writing a historical novel, distance in memoir, poetry, art & architecture
December 4, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Jami Nakamura Lin prefers longhand horizontal writing in large unlined notebooks (same!), plus checking-in on your writing goals, wrapping up 2023, book recs, honing your craft, more
November 9, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Butcher Block or Actual Writing Studio? Celine Keating on advice to her younger writing self, her new novel THE STARK BEAUTY OF LAST THINGS; plus reflecting on your writing year, book recommendations, text + image
October 30, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: Clearing the clutter, being receptive, Kristine Langley Mahler talks about home, being haunted, parenting, and more in A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN, plus poetry as mediation, image + smell