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Part 2 of What I Am Doing While I Am Not Writing 1,000 Words Per Day: Engaging deeply with things written and created by others. In the last two weeks, I binged two podcasts pretty hard. The first is a storytelling podcast, Personally by the Canadian Broadcast Co (Canada's NPR!). Season 4 is Discount Dave… Continue reading Engaging in What Others Make
1,000 words a day The writing resource that changed my life is the book and newsletter 1,000 words by Jami Attenberg. THE NOVEL has always been my writing goal, but I struggled for decades with focus, plotting, action, and, well, finishing a draft. I picked at one idea for more than a decade and ultimately… Continue reading When I am not writing 1,000 words per day …
It's spring break, as in: spring took a break and went back underground. It's barely above freezing and I cannot remember the last time I saw blue sky. This week, the March wind was so strong it knocked over my Front Yard T-Rex, about which children and their parents shout out to me, saying how… Continue reading I AM ALIVE EVEN THROUGH DARK WINTER!
Only one week of summer left! I am craving autumn coziness and have been welcoming fall for a few weeks already. Back in the Flow StateI paid a trusted literary press for feedback so I could begin a first-chapter novel rewrite. Which loosens a number of strings across the whole project and leads to a… Continue reading No-Slump September
I've been stuck trying to write an intro to this, because it would need so many caveats. I guess I'll make them a footnote?* Zoom into my small existence and I just love my little family. I love my baby! Six months is a fun age! Homemade South Jersey blueberry puree I talk a lot… Continue reading send no flowers, the visions never stop