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What, Why, How: Cristina M. R. Norcross

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I primarily write poetry, but I started out as a short story writer. When we were living in New Hampshire, I was halfway through writing a novel, when we had our first son. I soon discovered that large blocks of time were no longer available to me. Naptime was also quite elusive, so I would bundle up my baby and drive to the coast. I would bring a blank journal with me, so I could write in my parked car, by the sea. I discovered that if I timed it just right, I would have about an hour...

What, Why, How: Shara McCallum

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I principally write poems, but I also write personal essays from time to time. In all cases, I write about things that elude me and which seem paradoxical in nature. I tend to be drawn toward autobiography as a beginning point (rarely an end), the self as something worth interrogating, and the meeting point between the individual life and history. As a woman, a woman of colour, a mixed-race black person, a Jamaican-American, an emigrant/immigrant, I find I’m often attracted to writin...

The Zen of Standing Desks

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My old desk was one of those Sauder build-it-yourself jobs that come in a million little pieces. You know the kind: make one mistake in assembly and you’ll be pulling your hair out along with the brackets. The drawer and bottom cupboard (where an upright PC would go) were wasted space, and the desk itself didn’t give me much room to spread out. Note: this photo does not accurately show the mess of papers and sticky-notes that the work area had become! I felt boxed in when I sat down t...

What, Why, How: Kat Seaholm

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This is a hard question for me to answer, as most of my writing doesn’t fall neatly into a specific category. I like to refer to most of my writing as action/adventure, although that is a broad generalization. My current series, The Seeker Files, is fantasy with a mystery element. Set in a world where Supers (Supernaturals, i.e. Fae, Werewolves, etc.) and humans live together, my two main characters work for HSI. This is a department that deals with crimes that involve both humans and s...

Bar Jokes and Grammar

What’s better than bar jokes for English majors, grammar nerds and writers? When they also serve as mini grammar lessons! These jokes are all over the internet, and unfortunately I couldn’t find the author. But here they are for you, with my lessons.

A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

A dangling participle is one intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text. In the second sentence,...

What, Why, How: Lisa Romeo

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In the early days of May, I’m celebrating 30 years of marriage (to my high school crush!), National Moscato Wine Day, and the publication of my first full-length book, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss.

Mostly, it’s a posthumous love letter to my father, a complicated guy I didn’t understand, thought I was so different from, and never felt close to in life. Then I made some startling discoveries as I “got to know him” after he died—truths that showed me how a...

The Creative Mind vs the Realist

Which is “better” – daydreamers or realists?

You’ll find no surprises in the Huffingon Post’s list of eighteen traits of highly creative personalities: Creative people daydream, make their own hours, enjoy solitude, make use of obstacles, seek new experiences, and ask big questions. They watch people, take risks, express themselves, follow their passion, and get out of their own heads by taking on other’s perspectives. They view all of life as an opportunity for self-expression. And, of cour...

What, Why, How: Lesléa Newman

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My new poetry collection, entitled Lovely, which is an eclectic poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey as the speaker of the poems travels from childhood through young adulthood, to finally become a “woman of a certain age” who has gained insight and wisdom along the way. Many subjects are touched upon including loss of innocence, mother/daughter relationships, aging, self-acceptance, grief, the sharp pain of violence against women and the LGBTQIA community, and the deep p...

Embrace Your Voice: Buy a Book, Support a Cause

Embrace your Voice

Embrace Your Voice – April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I’ll donate $5 to The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence for each sale of my award-winning novel In the Context of Love from my Etsy store HERE during April. I’ll even sign it for you.

Read an uplifting coming-of-age story about a young woman who must rebuild her life after the discovery of a devastating family lie turns her world upside down, and support a great cause! The book was inspired by the real li...

What, Why, How: Carolyn O’Doherty

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I write young adult science fiction. At least, that’s what I’ve written so far. Rewind, which comes out in April 2018, is my debut novel so it’s hard to say what my writing will eventually encompass. I hope it will spread out over many topics, genres, themes . . . That said, the story ideas that grab me have so far all turned into: young adult science fiction.

Rewind tells the story of a group of teenagers who have the ability to freeze and rewind time. It’s a thriller set in my home tow...