How To Write A Blog Post About World Travel
Blog Post Ideas… for when you’re just not feeling it: Next month will be five years since I started this blog. As a Writer and Instructor of both Creative Writing and Blogging, I’m often asked by...
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THE WRETCHED ANGUISH OF A BREAKUP
Unpacking my books, I came across The Bell Jar. The angst-like cover got me thinking of a quick round of word associations. If I say “Sylvia Plath” – what comes to mind? Here’s a list of possibilities:...
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Writing; a fun hobby; a professional …
I was asked by a neighbor recently about my writing. For those of you who don’t know I’m back in California so I have a lot of catching up to do. A decade is a long time. What I shared is that writing...
View ArticleAll that is invisible to the eye… the heart knows
This birthday month I find myself thinking about my relationship with self, and what I appreciate at this time. It struck me that one of the most important changes in my life that came about as a...
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And the winner is…
I’m a tad late with this posting but every year, the literati place their bets on Japanese author Haruki Murakami winning the Nobel Prize in Literature. Instead, the Swedish Academy announced that the...
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Making your head burn
I love the month of November; I’m energized with ideas and projects and there are opportunities everywhere. Take for example NaNo, http://nanofiction.org/about a way for an emerging writer to get a...
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I didn’t mean to push your Buttons, I was looking for Mute
This week chatting with a friend, I remarked that blogging is like magazine writing. You need to welcome a reader in, and not hide your ideas in cluttered writing that assumes the reader understands...
View ArticleShould you or shouldn’t you… a word on Writing Contests
Many times novice writers enter contests even if they’ve never submitted a single piece of writing to a literary journal or magazine. This bewilders me. There are hundreds of journals and presses out...
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Do It… For Love
A teacher I know remarked how she would like to stay at home and run a blog. It got me thinking about what people think is involved versus what it actually takes. So this post is intended to dis-spell...
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Ideas & Intimacies
I once told a class, “It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only happy state is just having written.” Even in non-fiction one has to distance themselves from the information to become...
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Fearlessness
One hundred years ago today World War I, also known as the Great War ended. Many Americans especially today’s youth do not know history, they only know what they have lived through. In understanding...
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