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Oct.27.2011
My original title for this post was "How To Milk One Subject For All It's Worth and Get Paid Twice" but I didn't think it would fit in the header box.
Once I got the hang of how to sell essays by using a current topic/trend as a jumping off point, I kicked it up a notch (thanks to the advice of...
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Oct.21.2011
http://thresholdgirl.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/i-give-myself-permission-to-write-the-worst-first-draft-in-history/
That's the first and most popular page of this blog, Flo in the City. It sums up what I am trying to do in this blog.
I've been writing this Flo in the City Blog now for almost...
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Oct.01.2011
"When I grow up I want to be a professional wrestler. My name would be the Hurracain. I would be a legend."
So writes Jacy in an essay I found recently on Kid Writers, a blogspot where fourth graders from Oregon are testing their chops. As a class, about half of these young writers were born in...
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Sep.28.2011
Anybody's who's spent much time writing knows that it's a pretty solitary pursuit. Just you and the keyboard, or the typewriter, or the legal pad and a sharpened pencil or fountain pen. Sometimes stuff absolutely flows, more often you have to drag it out of hiding, from under...
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Sep.12.2011
The breeze off the Atlantic on Sea Island, Georgia at sunset carried the sound of bagpipes, a local tradition. In front of me, a lush green lawn fell away to the shore as Old Glory fluttered nearby and then was retired for the evening. I was sitting in an...
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Aug.29.2011
I'm happy to report the release of a new anthology, WEST OF 98: LIVING AND WRITING THE NEW AMERICAN WEST, featuring essays and poetry from sixty-six writers from every state West of the Mississippi River, talking about what it means to them to be from the West, and how they see the western identity...
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Aug.12.2011
I have just got to share a really GREAT review my latest book, "Fabulous in Flats," got on the Internet Review of Books today. The reviewer was Ann Hite, who writes the "Black Mountain" series of novels.
Link to Fabulous in Flats Review
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Jul.24.2011
I think I've spent close to three hours in bits and pieces finishing up my listing on something called "AuthorsDen.com"
Does anybody have any thoughts to the site's usefulness or anything else? Here's my listing...
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=153769
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Jun.19.2011
By Gina Misiroglu
To celebrate Father's Day, June 19th, Red Room asked several of its authors to write about their dads, their own experiences as fathers, or other memorable stories about fatherhood. It's been my pleasure to shepherd these articles to AOL's ParentDish and MyDaily channels, or to...
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Jun.07.2011
I love the essay collection, Orphans, by Charles D'Ambrosio, and currently have an appreciation up at The Last Book I Loved feature over at The Rumpus. You can read it here.
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