Lily Iona MacKenzie's Blog, page 20
February 7, 2022
In what ways are writers like the homeless?
Pre-pandemic, at a time when I was still looking for an agent and hadn’t yet published four novels and two poetry books, I attended an author/agent symposium, an event sponsored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. The location was gracious—the officer’s club at Fort Mason in San Francisco, a building with windows along […]
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January 31, 2022
Why I Write
Today I skipped my daily hour or more of writing. A discipline I’ve maintained for many years, it has resulted in over four novels, numerous short stories, poems, essays, and now a hybrid memoir. Not writing today made me think of a toddler I dreamt of last night. He told me he didn’t feel emotionally […]
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January 24, 2022
Why have I written a book about dreaming myself into old age?
One question I’ve been asking myself as I write about aging is what my goals are. In part, I hope that reflecting on my final years will help me to better understand my own maturing process and deepen it. In sharing this progression, my readers will make their own discoveries, as has been true for […]
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January 17, 2022
MEET THE AUTHOR MONDAY: Today I’m talking to Grace Sammon, Entrepreneur, Educator, Speaker, and Author
Grace Sammon is an entrepreneur, educator, speaker, and author. She has started and managed two for-profit and two not-for-profit companies, and she has travelled to 35 states and 8 foreign countries. Recognized in “Who’s Who in Education” and “Who’s Who in Literature,” Grace is utilizing skills built up over decades as she re-invents herself […]
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January 10, 2022
Book Marketing 101: A Refresher Course for all Writers
In many ways, we writers are innocents, especially regarding the selling side of the publishing business. As long as we can stay in front of our computers, engaged in the dream world of our fictions, we don’t have to think of how these narratives will find their readers. Now that my four novels (Fling!, Freefall: […]
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January 3, 2022
What’s the big deal about the Imagination?
Imagination is such an important part of our work as creators, whether we’re writers, visual artists, musicians, and more. However, it isn’t enough just to have imagination, but it also needs to be educated, refined, and developed, like any faculty. I could have a bent for playing the piano or singing, but nothing much will […]
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December 27, 2021
Is This Our Brave New World?
Okay, I know I’m not the only one who can’t keep her hands off her cell phone and computer. When it isn’t convenient to have my laptop in hand, then I turn to my phone to check email, the weather, the latest news, and more. Thankfully, I don’t text much or that would be another […]
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December 20, 2021
Join my guest author Mary Byrne in her discussion of why she writes and so much more!
On my blog today, I welcome guest author Mary Byrne, whose Irish heritage shines forth in her lush prose. She writes “to discover, to understand something, usually about people but also about myself.” Mary Byrne’s prizewinning short fiction has been published/broadcast and anthologized, in print and online, in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. […]
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December 13, 2021
FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNICAL INTERNET!
I’ve realized that it isn’t just writers who are tempted to turn themselves into fodder for the Internet. Non-writers also can give up their lives and be submerged by the Google glitz. That’s where freedom comes in. Freedom means many things to different people. For some, it conveys release from constraints. For others, it gives […]
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December 6, 2021
Is there such a thing as blind poetry?
Some time ago, I read an article in the New York Times Magazine describing the author’s experience with blind contour drawing. The process involves looking at the subject and drawing its contours without looking at the paper. Instead of carefully rendered replicas, the drawer ends up with fascinating interpretations of what s/he is looking at. They may […]
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