Mom
I’m beside myself with grief. My mother, Sarah Ellen Buddelmeyer, died Sunday, December 30, 2007. My family is in mourning. Please keep us in your thoughts. And please keep writing.
Go Team!
Go Team! “Anybody can become a writer, but the trick is to stay a writer” – Harlan Ellison One Friday in August,1996, I watched two women sitting across from one
Write (Now) Newsletter – November 2007
“Anybody can become a writer, but the trick is to stay a writer” – Harlan Ellison
Pass the Pumpkin Pie
“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi Anyone remember the back room at Nickelby’s bookstore? I attended a booksigning there one October more than twenty years ago. I hadn’t intended to
Yakety Yak
“James Blish told me I had the worst case of ‘said bookism’ (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to
Write (Now) Newsletter – September 2007
“James Blish told me I had the worst case of ‘said bookism’ (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.”
– Anne McCaffrey
“What’s the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.” – Dorothy Allison
When Dorothy Allison asked our Goddard M.F.A. class “How do you get your writing done?” I should have kept my mouth shut. “I bribe myself with decaf soy lattes,” was