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May.21.2013
It’s arbitrary and don’t let anyone tell you differently. At least in my subject area it is. Grading. Reading those last brilliant attempts to do what she said: make the character more viable, give us a point of entry, make your reader walk away thinking about your story…any...
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May.17.2013
The 2012 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant enabled me to bring writing workshops into twelve non-profit organizations. My passion is to bring poetry that is dynamic, accessible and transformative to audiences who do not usually read poetry. Because studies show that poetry and self...
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Apr.30.2013
William Zinsser's work on creative writing has influenced countless aspiring writers - up close, though his tutoring, and from afar through his long-time best-selling book, On Writing Well.
Now blind and 90 years of age, he's still doing what he's always done. That should be inspiration...
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Apr.29.2013
We first met Chris Baty about a decade ago, when Arielle agented his book No Plot, No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. We watched as he built this strange, beautiful community of lunatics and dreamers who, every November, write a 50,000 word book in 30...
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Apr.26.2013
If I must do something
It might as well be this
I enjoy it mostly
It helps iron the wrinkles
I could write my own ticket
Open my own doors
Kick life in the teeth
With these words or others.
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Apr.19.2013
Hey folks,
Hard to believe it’s almost the end of April. I’ve been so busy (in a good way) that I haven’t noticed the days flying off the old wall calendar. In fact, I have just realized that I have been blogging for just over a year now. How could I forget my own blogiversary? Bad blogger!...
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Apr.08.2013
So, I think I broke my brain. I am currently working to fix it.
Over the past four months since I indie-pubbed my first novel, Leather to the Corinthians, I have been spending considerable energy using social media (read: all my free time) to market and promote the book. Prior to its release, I had...
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Apr.02.2013
I tried something new last year: teaching online. I live and write in California, but I’ve been teaching creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University via the internet. I’ve never been to New Hampshire. Even so, part of me is there. It’s a new world.
One thing I quickly learned about...
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Mar.20.2013
Have there been times when you have a number of writing projects and you seem to be confused not knowing where to begin?
I am feeling that way right now, like I am stuck in the web of creativity. The solution is to PRIORITIZE!!!!
Have a very Happy Writing Webnesday!
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Mar.15.2013
When I was very smallMy mother took me to the lakeOut I floated, inflatable raftThen I slipped.
I didn’t know how to swimAnd down I went. Once. Twice. A third time.Thrice is a bit much.
But she dragged me to shore.
A few years later, away at campIn the bitter winter, I ventured a lonely...
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