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May.22.2013
"I was a drifting ship. I now feel like I have just hoisted my sails, and can sense wind filling them." ~ longtime foreign correspondent, novelist Jessica JJ Lutz
Here's what happened when a longtime foreign correspondent quit journalism to become a novelist.
She tumbled into a void. No...
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Mar.20.2013
I've just added The Company of Writers by Hilma Wolitzer to my favorite writing books list on the writers tips page of my website, in part because of the great advice it offers for successful writing groups. The reasons I love this book are too many to mention in one little...
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May.10.2012
Jon Carroll had a column in the SF Chronicle the other day about his daughter and a baby-sitter. I enjoyed the story but what I really took away was the fingers.
His daughter belongs to a circus group. The original members referred to themselves as the fingers, as in part of a hand. Even now, he...
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Nov.18.2011
The weather has turned cold and wet. Snow dusts the pine trees climbing the southern slopes. The snow level looks like it's about 3500 to 3600 feet.
That has nothing to do with anything. Just wanted to mention the weather. Yesterday was Thursday, and writing group met last night. It's a social...
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Jan.03.2011
Today my writing group and I started our poetry boot camp, day one, the first poem due sometime today before 12 midnight. We send out the poems to the entire group. We are each responsible for one critique, though this critique goes only to the poet.
We did this during the summer, and it was a...
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Oct.04.2010
Writing is a solitary occupation, and some writers like to keep it that way until it’s time to submit a manuscript to a publisher. Others, like me, prefer to meet regularly with a group of fellow writers – to get feedback on works-in-progress, to share in the trials and tribulations of the...
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Aug.06.2010
My friend Amanda likes to say she's the only writer she knows whose kitchen gets a mention in a novel's acknowledgments. Also in the acknowledgments of my novel is the cottage of our wonderful teacher, the late Stephanie Moore. And so, of course, are the people that once populated Stephanie's...
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Jan.04.2010
Hey All,
I am a writer from New York City — and I'd love to start a writing group where people can come together, share work and publishing techniques. I'm an editor of a literary journal (www.caperjournal.com) and have just completed a manuscript. I've been published on several journals and want...
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Jan.04.2010
Okay, it’s now that time of year when we look ahead (and make New Year’s Resolutions) and look back (at all the things we accomplished — or not, hence the New Year’s Resolutions).
On the publishing front, literary agent Nathan Bransford looks back at 2009 in his blog … while this Booksquare post...
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Jun.19.2009
I'm watching the old (2000) movie, Finding Forrester, as I work on this blog post. Have you seen it? It's the story of an aging agoraphobic author played by Sean Connery (the only actor worthy of the name Bond, in my opinion) and his young protoge', a brilliant inner city kid named Jamal. Forrester...
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