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May.17.2010
I've always admired the rugged ability of certain adventurer-writers to appear masterful in the wider world.
True or not, it’s easy to envision legendary expatriate authors like Karen Blixen and Ernest Hemingwaycrushing it in their overseas exploits. Satisfying wanderlust. Surviving exotic illness...
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May.04.2010
Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans (November 17 - 21, 2010) has issued a Call for Papers on The Literature of War & Collateral Damage.
The 2010 Humanities theme is The Literature of War & Collateral Damage. The conference offers programming designed for multiple audi...
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Apr.28.2010
Freelancers have to draw the line somewhere
The good news was that the assignment I'd just gotten from an L.A.-based web site was likely to lead to more work from this publisher.
The bad news was the compensation--an anemic $500 for an article of 2,000 words, wages that when I began...
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Apr.27.2010
Ever since I can remember the need to write has been as necessary as the need to breathe. As a troubled teen I’d view the world around me through prose, a running commentary of my life and the many messes I found myself in streaming through my head in a dissociative manner of observation which...
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Apr.22.2010
Monday morning I found this in my email:
BARBARA: We have read your manuscript, TAKE ME ALIVE, and would very much like to contract it.
There are a few minor point-of-view (POV) issues, but those will be easy toaddress. In fact, I have already marked and edited most of them, as I readthe...
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Apr.21.2010
“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.” ~ Author unknown
Two years ago, while I was looking for a literary agent, I set up profiles on every site that could help me get in touch with the right representative; along with the benefits of exposure, also came the less...
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Apr.11.2010
Recently I expanded my writing goals in response to a couple of opportunities that cropped up, just to see what would happen.
Normally, I write novels. Period. I'm not great at poetry, even though it's a lot shorter, because I think it's so difficult. See here. I've written short stories from...
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Apr.08.2010
My daughter and my middle son were eating dinner last night and out of the blue my son asked me “mom if you die, who would get us?” They both stopped eating and looked at me. I smiled because I knew the answer to that question!!!
The reason I knew was that a few years ago I went to Fiji. A...
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Apr.01.2010
“Charge hell with a bucket of water.” –Liz Carpenter31032010
FEMINAISSANCE [My Review Forthcoming]
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Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Intricacies of Black Lives, Dies at 73
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American University Newspaper Vandalized Over “Rape Apology”
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sophia? An Exercise In...
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