Unhappiness
“Blank pages inspire me with terror.” – Margaret Atwood After listening to me whine, a friend decided to give me a copy of Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The
September 3, 2008
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Pitch Lounge
Speed dating. That’s the best way I can describe the Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference I attended in late June. Three hundred writers vied for the attention
August 3, 2008
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No Conference? No Problem.
“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.” – Steven Wright By now many central Ohio folks have heard that the Columbus Writer’s Conference organizers are taking a
June 2, 2008
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Self-Sabotage
“No one can tell you when to start and how to stop, either. And only you can put it off until there are no more tomorrows.” – Susan Bono I’m
May 8, 2008
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Leap!
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how . . . . We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap
April 8, 2008
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Leap!
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how . . . . We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap
April 8, 2008
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Body Double
“If we had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage.” – Cynthia Ozick Even on good days I need little tricks to
February 8, 2008
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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
October 3, 2007
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“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
August 1, 2007
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Mac Envy
I learned to word process in 1987 on Word Perfect 4.1 for DOS. PC logic lives deep in my bones. But today, for the first time in twenty years, I
June 20, 2007
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