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Writing Advice from Annie Dillard
I hope to be back soon, yakking away. In the meantime, here’s a little writing advice from Annie Dillard: When you are stuck in a book; when you are well into writing it, and know what comes next, and...
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Write Short First
So you want to be a writer? Are you planning on working on the book-length manuscript for as long as it takes? And then market it to agents for as long as it takes? How about being published in the...
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Submission Advice from Robert Okaji, author of FROM EVERY MOMENT A SECOND
Today I want to introduce you to Robert Okaji, poet and the writer of the new Finishing Line Press chapbook From Every Moment a Second. Robert’s poems are relatively short and seem simple. I said...
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An excerpt from Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays: The...
by Windy Lynn Harris (guest blogger) Writing short stories and personal essays is a marketable skill in publishing. These types of short pieces are submitted and accepted every week. And the great...
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#NAPOWRIMO: The Last Week
I’ll tell you what. I’ll post a picture of my dearest love from this week, and you can guess what’s been going on. That’s right: I’ve been sick for a week! Allergy season is horrific in Arizona right...
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New Life Lessons and Naptime Needed
In 2012 I started blogging. Not on this blog, but on the adoption one I shared with my daughter (July 2012) and then, soon after, I started the family history blog, The Family Kalamazoo. It seemed as...
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Setting and Keeping Goals, A New Thing for Me
Thank you all so much for your kindness about my uncle’s passing. It felt too daunting to respond to all your condolences, but know that I appreciate each one. I closed the comments over there. Tiger...
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Where Do I Send My Story or Poem?
The other day, Ellie from Crossed Eyes and Dotted Tees asked me how I find magazines/journals where I can submit my writing. On the chance that maybe what I do might help someone else, I thought I’d...
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Look for the Beauty
This is day 36. I am hanging in there, gaining a bit of endurance, and trying to pay attention when my body needs rest. I’m also trying to pay attention to the beauty that I encounter. It’s the time...
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Creativity is Play
Last year I wrote about starting to work on Julia Cameron’a The Artist’s Way with a local group of artists. I haven’t said much in a long time, probably since before the pandemic began. I thought I’d...
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