by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I’m From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
New Blog post: How to Title Every Book You Ever Write You’ve decided on a life of letters. You’ve got that manuscript you workshopped getting your MFA, an agent, and a publisher. Congratulations! You’re well on your way to being a critical darling. Now all you need is...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Free-writing thinking offers women personal space and an outlet for creativity, allowing us to envision “what if” scenarios, and focus on what’s important. Free-writing is a short, timed typed or handwritten sprint, a collection of immediate thoughts about a problem....
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Please read my latest article on Huffington Post: A Brave Face – Victims Disfigured by Domestic Violence Can Get Life-Changing Help Audrey Mabrey’s ex-husband hit her on the head with a hammer and set her on fire. After multiple surgeries, she has become an advocate...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Writer’s Vacation Posted by Shonna Slayton Published in Creativity I’m convinced that a writer takes a vacation quite differently than most people (photographers and other artists notwithstanding.) Planning: If at all possible, the writer will finagle an entire family...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am working the streets of San Francisco. Nightly, I prowl around Haight-Ashbury and North Beach, the Castro and Tenderloin, Fourth Street and Folsom. I ply my trade with men … as well as women, transgenders, at least one self-described Druid and the occasional...
