by Kelli Donley | Apr 18, 2012 | CAOK, Novel, Travel, Uncategorized
I’m dedicating the next week’s worth of posts to my new favorite state in the union: Indiana. That’s right, Indiana. Home of the Hoosers, the Butler Bulldogs and the best book club I know. Have you ever been? If so, you know Indianapolis is a...
by Kelli Donley | Mar 10, 2012 | Novel
Phew. What a crazy couple of weeks it has been around the Heirloom Homestead. I’ve finished a class on narrative at Lighthouse and have been working steadily on novel #2. I’m in the middle of chapter 14 — what I’d guess is half-way through...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 9, 2012 | Colorado, Journal, Novel
{I am stealing this blog post title from my friend Elizabeth (Mini). If you aren’t reading her blog, you should. It is some of the funniest writing on the web.} Last night I met friends in LoHi — oh Denver, with your bizarre naming of neighborhoods —...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 3, 2012 | Good to Great, Novel
I am taking a writing class focused on narrative. The class has 10 women and an instructor. We get together for a couple hours a week to discuss writing technique and to review each other’s work. This process of “workshopping” my writing is entirely...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 23, 2011 | Colorado, Community, Good to Great, Novel
I’ve been haunted by insomnia lately. This happens about once a year. I’ll go 3-4 weeks without a good night’s sleep, waking around 2 am for 2-3 hours at a stretch. Some nights I just lie there, rolling the day around in my head, like a bowling ball...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 6, 2011 | Colorado, Novel
The other day in yoga, the instructor stopped the class to emphasize we were “practicing.” Yoga is a practice. Not a routine, or a class. Or just an excuse to sweat with other people in public in really awkward positions. I’ve found writing is much...
