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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....
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Published on February 23, 2012 09:42

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.)
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Published on February 13, 2012 14:37

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....
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Published on February 09, 2012 09:23

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...
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Published on February 03, 2012 12:57

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.
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Published on February 01, 2012 15:06

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...
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Published on January 30, 2012 15:40

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. *...
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Published on January 27, 2012 08:55

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...
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Published on January 24, 2012 16:06

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....
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Published on January 16, 2012 14:37

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...
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Published on January 13, 2012 09:57