journals | journals
Jul.30.2011
This is my 100th blog post since beginning this project over a year ago.
I haven't always been faithful. There were long pauses between thoughts, especially last fall-winter. I was kind of busy trying to stay afloat in the sea of confusion that defined my job most of the year.
So, this summer I...
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Jul.21.2011
I love journals. I enjoy reading the diaries and letters of the famous and the not so famous. I recently picked up a book called, "This Day, Diaries from American Women."
The book is the result of a project in which the author, Joni B. Cole asked women if each would write about one day...
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May.25.2011
From "Hygiene, conduct, method" [1862?]:
I swear from now on these will be the eternal rules of my life:
Every morning pray to God, reservoir of all strength and all justice, to my father, to Mariette and to Poe, as intercessors; pray to them to give me the strength necessary to do my...
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May.22.2011
"Venus eternal (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil." [can't decide about this one; obviously not politically correct, but tantalizing nonetheless].
"The day the young writer corrects his first proof, he is as proud as a schoolboy with his first...
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Mar.25.2011
You are your best promoter.
That being said, I would like to share some simple strategies for promoting yourself daily.
Blogging: No matter what blogging platform you use, you can maximize it by posting consistently. Use it to promote your new writing projects or to share new ideas...
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Jan.29.2011
At the bottom of a dusty sports bag, underneath envelopes of old photographs and diaries, she finds an exercise book. Lines composed in 1986. Words that existed on that faintly lined page for a quarter of a century, while the author lived in the world, gathering experiences and amassing wisdom that...
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Sep.19.2010
Live now at http://www.thesmokingpoet.com/
“A fine cigar and good literature―two of life’s most enduring pleasures.”
Artwork by Ladislav Hanka
I know, I know, I say this every issue: it’s our best issue yet. Thing is, it’s always true. However good you get at what you are doing, what...
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Aug.13.2010
(Still traveling! This blog was originally published on the site www.hercircleezine.com, a great site for women writers. I hope you check it out.)
What is most remarkable about the fifteen pages of my great-grandmother’s journal—the same that inspired my novel, The Quickening—is the fact that she...
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Aug.03.2010
(While I'm traveling for the book, I have little time to keep my blog updated. (Apologies!) Here's a "new-to-you" entry that was published as an original essay on the great Powells.com. Go to www.powells.com/blog/?p=20826 to take a look.)
Listen to the voices Studs Terkel collected in...
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Jul.14.2010
When I see something of interest in the world, I often replicate it in my imagination so that I can analyze it later. This happens a lot and so quickly I don't think about it, though it's there in my subconscious. The other day I was waiting for the morning train, drinking coffee, finishing a...
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