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July 6, 2018
What I read last month: June 2018
In What I Read Last Month, I recap the previous month’s reading and shamelessly copy and paste from my Goodreads reviews. You can read previous months’ What I Read… by clicking here. Disclaimer: Amazon links are affiliate links, but despite wanting to support writers by buying books, I get most of mine from the library.
June was a crazy-slow month for reading. Magazines piled up. I bought a long(ish) YA novel that was supposed to be a quick read, but nodded off after only a few pages every ni...
June 13, 2018
Limitations on writing time: they can be good for us
We writers pine for a day when we can just write. No obligations, no kids interrupting (through a closed door, no less), no deadlines, no nothing. Just us and the blank page. What a privilege that would be, right?
Actually, I don’t think so. Don’t get me wrong. I love a solitary writing retreat. I finished two books thanks to multi-day stints at our family’s beach bungalow. But I’m ready to return to the real world at the end of those escapes. And despite the progress I make there, most of my...
