Pam Bustin
creator, editor, story tender
Category: Writer’s Life
With a love so vast and shattered…
I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere And I sing this for the captain Whose ship has not been built For the mother in confusion Her cradle… Continue Reading “With a love so vast and shattered…”
Bethani reminded me….to begin again…
Hullo Sweeties…. Today on Facebook a friend and fellow writer, Bethani Jade, tagged me in a post inviting me to share in a “self-love” writing challenge that she is doing. It brought up all sorts of….nasty sticky goo for me around my writing practice.… Continue Reading “Bethani reminded me….to begin again…”
I still have healing herbs….
I begged God to let me know, if it were His will, could I please stop writing. Why? Well, I know I am just as weak and undeserving–and more so–than I was thirty years ago when God commanded me I should begin. When I… Continue Reading “I still have healing herbs….”
on honouring our Work…
Pam ponders the power of honouring our work, instead of viewing our manuscripts as Things we must wrestle into submission…
Looking forward…a writer prepares…
Wherein Pam sings the praises of her wonderful community of fellow writers (with links) and lays out her exciting new plan to find her way through a new draft of her novel in progress….
Survival Tips for Storytellers (and other humans)
Pam talks about her own journey as a writer – and offers up some tips from the road.
Includes a guided visualization she calls.. The Gift.
Shortest Day…Taking the Leap
“We are on the cliff, ready to commit to moving forward—leaping into uncertainty, and burning our bridges behind us if necessary.”
good times ~p
Walking My Way to Water: Week 12 – Faith – Learning to Trust Your Own Process
Another week of… Letting it be. Letting myself be. Trusting the process by which I work. Trusting that it will all work out in the end…. artistically.
Slow Rot Deep Rot: Finding the Juice in our Writing
I’m thinking today about… my strengths and weaknesses as a writer. About where the “good stuff” comes from. The stuff that works. That touches other people. And how I access that stuff. This one is for all of us who are…. in the midst of it….
Places I read
some places i hang out
Pam Bustin 