Finding my "voice". Writing daily. Organization/manipulation. Canned heat.
There's been such a process of "finding my voice" in fiction. It's been tough and a long time coming, but I think I've finally got it down. For the time being, anyway.

What a fine line I walk in stories... there's such natural ease to nonfiction; I've been wanting to 'cross over', to bring the qualities I like best from my nonfiction to the fiction. Hard to do, which I didn't anticipate, but by now I've gotten comfortable enough with fiction the cross-over sort of organically came about on its own.

Which brings me to writing daily. If I get my hands back into the writing -- whatever it is -- every day, whether I actually put words down or not, things progress. Keeping my most recent work fresh in my mind is pretty necessary.

Organization continues to be a thorn in my side. Managing things with multiple printouts, many sizes and colors of post-its and binder clips, and multiple pen colors. So far, so good.

There aren't quite enough colors, though. I could use a dozen.


P.S. Never use a whole can of chipotle peppers for anything. I know it's tiny; size lies.