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February 23, 2012
A Fresh New World
Grace's seventh birthday is today and a daughter emails me that as the cousins were carpooling to school this morning, Grace announced, "It feels so new to be 7!" It struck me that writers should be saying this every morning....
February 13, 2012
What a Writer Does
In case you didn't see this on Facebook (where just about every writer friend I have has posted it.)
February 9, 2012
Nelson Plus Apology
Due to the huge demand for more pictures of Nelson (well, okay, Carol and Patti asked and Nelson thanks you for your interest) here's a picture of Nelson taken this morning. The apology is for the Comment section being closed....
February 3, 2012
"Cat In An Empty Apartment"
Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1996, died this week. (Her obit is in this morning's L.A. Times - 2/3/12 - and in yesterday's N.Y. Times.) I have two of her books, View...
February 1, 2012
Feeding the Wolf
I just found the above posted on Facebook. I think it can also apply to writers. We have the choice to feed our fear of failure, or our hard work and optimism.
January 30, 2012
Writing the Personal Essay
Writing the personal essay is my favorite genre of creative writing. At this moment I've got a children's picture book idea I'm struggling with; many drafts of it written but I can't find the key to make it into a...
January 27, 2012
Why Keep a Journal
Here's an excerpt from the book I'm working on now, Kicking In The Wall: A Year of Writing Exercises for Fiction, Memoir & Personal Essays. If you do the exercises I'd love to hear if they worked for you. *...
January 24, 2012
Kicking In The Wall
Just before the holidays I sold a proposal for another book entitled Kicking In The Wall: A Year of Writing Exercises for Fiction, Memoir & Essays. I'm at work on it now and New World Library will published it in...
January 16, 2012
Author Central: The Return of You-Know-Who
Amazon has this cool new thing for published writers called Author Central where you can click on Book Scan Highlights and discover not only how many copies of your books sold through Amazon the previous week but where they sold....
January 13, 2012
Advice About Publishing
Some good advice via my publisher Marc Allen and the New World Library blog. Thursday, December 29, 2011 "Five Steps to Writing Well and Getting Published" by New World Library Publisher, Marc Allen POSTED BY NEW WORLD LIBRARY I read...
