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April 8, 2024
Writing for Love or Money?
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money.” —Molière Since I first began publishing my pieces, I’ve struggled with this idea of writing for money. Why, as Moliere suggests, should writers be prostituting themselves if …
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April 1, 2024
Letting the imagination lead!
In addition to writing adult fiction and non-fiction, I also create pieces for children. Today, I tried to start a children’s story of a girl sleeping in an elegant dollhouse based on a dream image that has stayed with me. But after a few sentences, I felt extremely critical of what I had written. I …
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March 25, 2024
Do writers have particular readers in mind?
At a recent poetry reading I gave, I was asked if I wrote for a particular ideal reader, something I hadn’t given much thought to. So here is my response to that question, though I’m sure other writers will approach it differently. When I’m writing non-fiction, which usually takes the essay form, I have to …
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March 18, 2024
Thanks to Ellen Birkett Morris, author of BEWARE THE TALL GRASS, for taking readers behind the scenes of her writing process!
Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, and Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award. Morris is also the author of Abide and Surrender, poetry chapbooks. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, …
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March 4, 2024
I’m delighted to join Mimi Herman, author of the Kudzu Queen, A Field Guide to Human Emotions, and Logophilia, in this engaging conversation about her writing life
Mimi Herman is the author of The Kudzu Queen, A Field Guide to Human Emotions, and Logophilia. Her novel The Kudzu Queen was selected by The North Carolina Center for the Book for the 2023 Library of Congress “Great Reads from Great Places” program and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her writing …
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February 26, 2024
Thanks to Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop for sharing “A WRITER IS NEVER NOT WRITING”
A Writer is Never Not Writing On the road with my imagination One of the best things about being a writer is that you can take your work with you no matter where you go. Of course, this is true now for lots of jobs because of Zoom and the internet and the acceptance of …
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February 19, 2024
Words as Animals
I recently read the book Words as Eggs by Jungian analyst Russell Lockhart. The idea for the work, and the chapter from which the title comes, originated in one of Lockhart’s dreams. A voice in his dream said “Do you not know that words are eggs, that words carry life, that words give birth?” (92). …
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February 12, 2024
Writers or Magicians?
Fiction writers have been called many things, but magician seems to me the best description. They dip into the black hat of their imagination and produce an endless variety of characters, situations, images, genres, events, and styles. The effect on readers is nothing less than magical, the reader also becoming a magician, assisting in making …
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February 5, 2024
Making Lemonade: How Writers Transform Rejection
A writing friend of mine has papered her bathroom with rejection slips. Viewed in that context, they become less weighty and are put into perspective. As writers, we tend to think of rejections from publishers as negative. But rejections can be gifts in disguise, offering us a way to make lemonade out of lemons. There …
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January 30, 2024
The many layers of editing!
Small presses don’t have the reputation that larger presses do of maintaining high editorial standards. But my experience with these presses, especially Regal House, the one that published Curva Peligrosa, my second novel, was revelatory. Before submitting the manuscript to the press for its consideration. I had been through it numerous times on my own, …
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