Marathoning

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” — Fred DeVito I’d been running for five and a half hours through the rural countryside surrounding Xenia, Ohio. My tired

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Hope and Work

“As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.” — Neil Gaiman I’ve got it again. You know,

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Not Failure

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Outwardly, December looks like a failure. I hoped to revise Twenty-Six

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Balancing Act, Not!

“Balance is not always obtainable in every situation, however, we have the option to surrender our control over the desired outcome and live more easily in the present moment. This

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Word Carver Interview

“Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance – the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.” – Emily Greene Balch Sometimes life

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More on Revision

“That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.” – Kelly Barnhill As I drove home from a recent evening

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Why Bother?

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford Some days

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The Divine Detail

“Caress the detail, the divine detail.” – Vladimir Nabokov I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions, but I do take a personal inventory when the calendar flips to the next

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Troubles, Great and Small

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle What if agents don’t want my book? What if small

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