Lisa Tener
Book Writing Coach
My list for today included many places I’ve wanted to visit for a long time—India, Iceland, Utah—and a few I briefly glimpsed and wish to really see—Mount Shasta, Thailand. But the last entry surprised me—Israel. You could say I’ve internalized my parents’ fear of danger there—from the violence and bombing throughout my childhood. You’d be…
Today’s prompt stirs memories of my cousin’s bar mitzvah—all the ancient relatives from my dad’s side that I’ve never met before, or met once or twice. I’m eight or eleven and confused by all these seeming strangers. I feel particularly embarrassed when Grandma Stella sings. Her intense emotion makes Barbara Streisand seem tame… …Now that…
I love to write in the morning but it’s rare that I wake pre-dawn. Today’s prompt reminds me of a particular summer morning before or after ninth grade when I woke particularly early. While everyone else slept, I wrote in my journal. I lay in bed in our old Victorian New Brunswick summer house along…
I made my list of quirky character traits for Day 9 after writing in my dream journal and felt utterly uninspired to turn my traits into actual characaters. Or maybe just resistant. I hadn’t attempted fiction in ages. Or maybe I just wasn’t ready… Who am I to judge myself? Or anyone, for that matter….
Today’s meditation “Explore Your Inner Garden” came to me during a writing retreat at Kripalu Yoga and Conference Center. I was working on another book (the one I plan to publish next) and the whole garden metaphor came up as an inner landscape we can use to tap into our creativity and explore at will….
Today’s meditation, “Meet Your Muse,” is one of my favorite ways to help writers connect to their creativity and inner wisdom. I taught my writing coach this meditation so she could lead me through it whenever I am searching for answers. In today’s exploration, I journeyed to my muse. I felt the sun on my…
