A Writer Shed Review With striking sensitivity, humor, and superb awareness, Barbara Monier brings to life the trials of a young creative woman finding her way in the world, and yet through it all in her older years, the woman finds herself still searching. Barbara Monier weaves past and present…

A Writer Shed Review Some mysteries, even great classics of the genre, are offered in a formulaic wave of give and take, informing the reader piece by piece to ultimately unveil the story’s secrets. It’s a part of the genre’s allure. …

A Writer Shed Review Martin Wells’ Lost for Words: The poetry of mindfulness and non-duality is a simple yet profound collection. Simple in its clarity but profound in its depth. Martin’s life as a psychotherapist and his extensive experience in the art of mindfulness practices puts an absorbing spin on…

A worthy purpose for writing the personal narrative Writing about what you see, feel, how you witness your life is to believe in the power of reflection. Personal stories are about observation and the courage to offer that reality to others, a sharing of how one sees the world. As…

What might you be ready to create in 2023? What do you hope to create in 2023? I know, many times resolutions are just screaming to be broken, but it is always good to reset, rebalance, and recommit. Something great could come of it. In the first days of 2023…

What makes a good ending for a book? I’m reading the great novel by Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending, and I have stolen his title here for a reason. The book is a masterpiece of complex emotions and slight-of-hand. Not that it involves plot trickery, not at all…

Thank you, thank you, thank you You are the best! Following me and the Writer Shed publication on Medium means more than I can express. I am at over 1000 followers now and growing. Here at the Shed, I try to stay in my lane — writing, creativity, literature, and…

Is this okay? It is a cold December morning. The space heater in the writing shed is on and warming it up. In the dark of the kitchen, I make coffee a couple of hours before sunrise. This is all quite familiar, a pattern, a discipline in my writing life…

Let the wine, your creativity. and your writing mature FROM CONTRIBUTING WRITER, AMITA BASU The best writing advice I’ve received was scattered over twelve years: from three people, none of them a writer. I was 20, and struggling to make my writing work. I thought I just had to produce…