Life is a magical story waiting to be told. Myth, fairytale, and metaphor are the primary language for telling Life’s many stories.
The Muse invites you to share your experiences with that magic in your unique way.
The magic of story started for me at a very young age. I’ve always been an avid reader. My favorite books to read were fairy tales, myths, classics, and mysteries. I was the kid who picked the fattest books off the library shelves because I knew that the magic within its pages wouldn’t end too soon.
I’ve been a writer almost as long as I’ve been a reader. I loved all those essay and story assignments that made the other kids groan in class. In junior high, I wrote my version of a Nancy Drew mystery…on tablet paper.
Not surprisingly, I majored in English in college, with a concentration in Creative Writing. Years later, after marriage and while raising three boys, I received my MFA in Creative Writing and Weaving with a focus on fantasy.
Yes, I was a weaver, a professional weaver traveling for 15 years to fine craft shows around the country, selling to retail and wholesale customers. From my experience as a weaver, I wrote Weaving a Woman’s Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom, which won recognition and awards, including Foreword Magazine’s Bronze award for Book of the Year in the category of Self-Help.
That book led to a book festival where I met author and tarot expert, Rachel Pollack. I studied tarot with her, and we became close friends and writing critique partners.
Always an active dreamer, I studied shamanic dream work with Robert Moss and was part of his dream circle for years. I find dreams and tarot to be effective, practical intuitive tools for creative work, especially writing, since both use the language of myth, metaphor, fairy tale, and archetype.
When working with writers and other creatives, I use my understanding and experience as a writer, editor, reader, and tarot and dream intuitive, along with my belief in everyone’s special creative magic, to help writers tell stories with power and passion and…that magical spark.
Experience the magic. Write your story.