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May.16.2012
Gustave Flaubert
"Talent is long patience." -- Gustave Flaubert
A few years ago I lay on the couch in my living room, curled up into a fetal position, intermittently groaning and blinking back tears.
I felt as though everything I had worked for had been ripped away from me, as though I...
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May.11.2012
While I wait on agents and editors to decide my "big" writing fates, I've been sending out poems,essays, and short stories to the universe of small journals and magazines, online and hard copy. My Submittable record shows that in the past year and a half, I've had 16 acceptances, 93 rejections, and...
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Apr.23.2012
Over the years, I’ve learned how to catch myself before I spin out of control emotionally. Sometimes it’s easier said than done, like many things concerning human emotions. It takes conscientious effort to reconstruct the old worn paths that meander through the woods of the mind that can send...
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Apr.06.2012
Although I was very happy to have my poem Catching The Dalmatian accepted at egg poetry earlier this week (link to follow), I was disappointed with tonight's emailed rejection from Poetry Breakfast, declining to publish three pieces I sent them in mid-March.
It was a friendly rejection though...
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Mar.23.2012
"Never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
Churchill's words fill our hearts with determination and vigor. He enthuses the weakened and the weary. He energizes the down and the dormant. He offers a single spark of encouragement mixed with a slice of endurance.
You need...
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Mar.06.2012
Stephen King, you may have heard that name, received dozens of rejections for his first novel, Carrie; he kept them tidily nailed to a spike under a timber in his bedroom.
One of the publishers sent Mr. King's rejection with these words:
We are not...
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Jan.20.2012
This week I've asked my friend and book editor/book doctor Liz Fitzgerald to weigh in with:
Confessions of a Book Doctor: Five Things that Every Writer Must Know
By: Liz Fitzgerald
I’ve worked as an editor and book doctor for a number of years, both with a publishing house and more recently...
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Dec.19.2011
When she cries, she weeps openly. It’s not the kind of cry that hurts when you bruise yourself nor is it a typical cry from anger or frustration.
It’s the kind of quiet weeping that’s internally deep and lonely. Gentle sobs, piercingly intense.
When asked if everything is okay, she lets...
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Dec.17.2011
The ways that one deals with disappointment can separate those who are eventually successful from those who are not.
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Nov.02.2011
Photo: Fish in a fence after Hurricane Ike. This is representative of my anxiety re: these two questions.
Okay, a quick shout out to the readers of this blog: I have two questions I'd very much like your answers or opinions to.
1. Writing groups. Are you a member of...
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