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I obviously haven’t been in blog-land much lately. I’ve been editing my WIP and frankly, if I follow much more of the (good) writing advice/models I’ve been reading lately, there won’t be much of the damn thing left for anyone else to read. Hint Fiction (props to Merrilee Faber for the heads-up on [Continue reading] Some of you know I was an editorial assistant at one of the Big Name publishers in Boston in my first post-college job. Every morning, I’d stop at Dunkin’ Donuts for a large coffee and two glazed donuts, ride from Cambridge to Park Street on the MBTA, spill out with the hordes into Boston [Continue reading] …perfect baking weather, in my mind. So I made apricot-orange oat scones and then, since the kitchen was already a mess, cranberry chocolate chip cookies. C’mon over. I just put on a pot of coffee. I was awake a lot during the night since bands of rain kept slamming the bedroom windows. [Continue reading] I went to a great panel discussion this past week as part of my local university’s annual Writers Week. It featured Jay Varner, a Creative Writing MFA graduate here who just published his memoir, Nothing Left to Burn, and Jay’s editor, Chuck Adams at Algonquin Books. Adams also edited Sara Gruen’s Like Water [Continue reading] I’ve always loved Kim Carnes’ voice and this song — even though this isn’t the best version of it, it’s the only one I could find on YouTube. And, uh, Kim is 65 years old here and looks, IMHO, absolutely fabulous, so there’s something to be said for breaking the rules. Which brings me to [Continue reading] Oh. My. I’m far behind and I’ve barely started. Can I do this? ::Holds nose and gets ready to dive.:: ::Dives:: ::Re-emerges, breathes, shakes water out of brain.:: Here goes: Weeks 1 – 4: The role of ‘place’ in a story As a relatively new Southerner, I’m constantly amazed at how much the change in latitude has changed [Continue reading] When I started blogging in earnest last year, I thought I’d share smatterings of my writing, talk about writing issues and have, if I was lucky, maybe half a dozen writing buddies to compare notes with and prop me up during writing crises and National Novel Writing month. Which is pretty much what [Continue reading] I don’t usually think of my current dog, Polly, as my intellectual muse and partner. Not the way Patch was. I think of Polly more as my personal fitness trainer, since as a hound dawg who needs to run, she forces me to get outside and walk or run every single day, no [Continue reading] Oh, Wordle is so much fun! Check it out and try it yourself. Wordle — beautiful word clouds. This week-end I had the opportunity to see/hear Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story at my local university. This is an NPR series (I’d never heard it; my local station doesn’t carry it — but, yeah, now I know I can download podcasts and so can you…) in which professional actors read “classic [Continue reading] |
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