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Sep.23.2012
You can find tons of advice about when and where to write. Some experts say it’s best to write early in the morning. Some say it’s best after lunch or late at night. Some say do it at the same time every day. Others say do it in the same place, while still others will tell you to change you...
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Aug.26.2012
One of the key pieces of advice the creative writing faculty give to our entering graduate students is to make time for writing. Grad school requires so much of us all, there are many tasks, and they pull in different directions. One has to present a public face...
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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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Aug.02.2010
Last week, I finished working for the summer. Six weeks off opened up in front of me, glittering with promise. All that writing time! All that gardening time! Will I manage to squeeze in all that time I meant to spend lazing around in front of Project Runway, petting the cat?
So far, I have been...
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May.02.2010
Bitterness, much like eccentricity and corpulence, appears to be somewhat of an occupational hazard for writers. Just as sitting on your rump all day writing is guaranteed to make you fat, and spending whole days inside your own head sure to make you a bit weird, the challenges writers face are...
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Apr.19.2010
I dream of the day when, somewhere amongst the cabbages and turnips, a man by the name of Mr Pan-Macmillan, or Mr. Harper-Collins, approaches me in the supermarket, and whispers: "Psst! Hey lady!". I, not being the kind of person who uses the supermarket as a pick-up joint, would ignore...
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Dec.14.2009
Hello everyone. It's been a while. Guess what? I've been busy with the Big Secret Project.
I read, over on inkygirl.com [daily diversions for writers) that Ann Aguire writes her first draft in 30 days. 30 days?!! This crazy-productive lady must be typing in her sleep! I don't know how anybody can...
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Dec.05.2009
It's not the day job that I resent. The day job, I like just fine. It's well-paid and rewarding and it gets me home in time to have enough time to spend serious time writing. It's the other things I resent - the must-do menial tasks that eat into writing time, keeping me away from my desk and tied...
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Nov.22.2009
After I get up I will have 2 (two) cups of tea and pet the cat and feed the cat, and after I have fed the cat and had my 2 (two) cups of tea I will go to the allotment to catch up on everything that needs to be done. After I have weeded and planted and cut back the raspberry canes and watered (...
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Nov.12.2009
Nothing says the beginning of Winter like putting the clocks back. All of a sudden, we're plunged into darkness, getting ready for work before the sun rises and coming home after it's set. Spend your day in an environment where there isn't much light - a wrong-facing office, say, or an internal...
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