Being Mindful – A Free Mini-Course in Writing

Gardens of the Moon was written a long time ago.  In fact, the first draft was set down shortly after I graduated from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and while Iowa’s greatest gift to me was the extra two years in which to write unencumbered by the necessity of holding down a full-time job, it was my undergraduate writing degree that truly taught me about writing.  The arena for learning wasn’t, oddly enough, in the workshops themselves (though those were very useful), but in the various lecture co...