As a writer, you often get asked, “What is the one piece of advice you would offer new writers?” The answer to this could be a very, very long list, and some of those answers are shared by many of us—write what you love, just write, write for yourself. All of which are spot on, […]
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Recently I spoke with a new-ish writer and their enthusiasm made me nostalgic for a simpler time. A time when the words “THE END” provided a warm, blissful sense of accomplishment, instead of heralding the beginning of the strapping on my work boots and getting dirty with the “real” work of a writer. I see […]
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If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times— Writing is a solitary art. Just like a great many artisans, we toil alone. You’ll find many writers hunched over a keyboard, the eerie light of the screen our only form of vitamin D. We tend to mutter to ourselves, have full on conversations/arguments, […]
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I had a lovely plan for our traveling circus this year, but that plan was quickly derailed as first one monkey made a break for it with the others quickly following his example. Now they’re running amok leaving my circus a mess. Such is the nature of adulting. The oldest of the Prankster Duo successfully […]
Continue readingEvery writer has more than one passion. Just looking around my group of lovelies, I have one awesome writer who takes great joy in showing off her beautiful Saluki darlings, another loves creating culinary delights (and then quality testing them), still another finds solace in sketching images, another indulges in discovering new places and people, […]
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