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Jun.15.2013 Using Fear to Write Here's an interesting take on "writing what you know." In the June 11, 2013 issue of The New York Times, author Sarah Jio writes about how one night of abject terror helps her to write about fear. For the first time, in this essay, she writes about that night and goes on to explain how the...	Apr.19.2013 A Mother Who Writes How does a mother with two young children write a novel? It is not impossible (though some days it feels exactly that). Pare down expectations, I tell myself. A little bit here, a little there. Sneak in a half hour between naps. Or nap and stay up late and luxuriate in an entire hour of silence...
Mar.16.2013 The Imperial War Pug Earlier today a television interviewer asked me some questions about War Pugs. As a long time Pug fancier I did my best to satisfy his curiosity but I realized there may be more people out there with questions. So I’ve set down this brief set of facts, tidbits, and trivia . . . I’m...	Mar.06.2013 The Write Diet I sat on my bed and opened my journal to a clean page. I had my notebook, my pen. I was all set to write. And then I heard it. The first rumble of hunger. My stomach rumbled again, loud as thunder. Write or eat? I wanted to write, but maybe I was better off eating first. I wondered what...
Feb.04.2013 Hitting the Triangle at the Right Time I'm in the dining room, the warmest room in the house, tapping my laptop's keys with the pads of my fingertips, attempting to hit something, anything (maybe it's the coffee pot—which I've already too often hit—or, maybe it's the pavement that beckons me, walk! or, it might...	Jan.31.2013 Writing Advice If you're visiting Red Room because you, yourself, are a writer, or enjoy the writerly craft sort of business, you'd also do well to follow Joe Lansdale, an excellent hard boiled writer. He does mystery, horror, thriller, and just writes brilliant stories. My first intro to him was The Bottoms,...
Jan.05.2013 Why get paid for writing? Or why get paid for making any art? Are we sick with insecurity to want this life of insecurity? Is the appreciation we are after best expressed in money? Or are we, as so many writers have said over the centuries, just too viscerally lazy to hold down a day job? I'm having issues with this today...	Dec.10.2012 Where Did You Go? We give too much credence to technology, and the notion that it brings rapid change to everything: that everything is all hurry up and get this done now because it is all at your fingertips, and there is no good reason why you can't be on top of it at this very second. You can...
Oct.18.2012 Concord Monitor Interview, Hall Kenyon Award Published on Concord Monitor (http://www.concordmonitor.com) 'Everything is connected, pay attention' Hall-Kenyon award goes to Jane Hirshfield By Mike Pride / For the MonitorOctober 18, 2012 Jane Hirshfield, who hid her poems under the mattress as a child, will receive the...	Sep.10.2012 SO YOU WANT TO WRITE.... Hi everyone. Today I'll be starting something different and exciting. I'll still be spirtual blogging. However I'll be posting snippets of a Short-Story every three-months on the first Monday of the second week. The awesome thing about it all is I'm inviting my readers' to...

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