We writers spend a lot of time in our heads. We sit hunched over our keyboards, dreaming up plots and characters, themes and worlds. This is as it should be. But sometimes, we need to get out of our heads and into our bodies, especially when we're creating our fictional settings. Setting is the story element that grounds our characters - and our readers - in the physical world. So in order to make our settings come alive, we need to experience them with our bodies as well as our imaginations....

Feeling Fate by Joni Senses I'm currently writing a memor, so I've been doing a lot of reading in the genre lately. Somehow, though, I...

Next weekend, I'll have the honor of presenting at the Epic Write Full-Bodied Writing Retreat on the beautiful Hood Canal in Washington....