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Novel Writing 101
To honor my friend and fellow writer Tim Hall, whose debut novel is out. Step One–accept that you have a story to tell. Two–confront the many ways to tell it: memoir, fiction, photo montage, essays. Three–write reams to get the story out of your head onto the page. Take heart, this is what Anne Lamott (Bird by…
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Only Myself to Blame
It’s been a good week: five poems accepted for publication and acknowledged, a time-consuming project cancelled and a new poem written. Of course, I did my daily morning pages and insisted on a focus. I updated my submissions list and noted the next round of subs. But I did not tackle the long projects on my…
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Esoteric Joy
Full disclosure: I am a detail junky, a fact addict. I keep a fat black notebook full of potentially useless information. Like if you plant an orange seed you may grow a lemon tree. That the okapi–a mammal that looks like a cross between a giraffe and a horse–is a six million year old species. That the…
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Read for Equality, Please
Regular readers here will have seen my postings of READ FOR EQUALITY, a habit that has grown out of my concern for the racial inequity in publishing. In honor of these concerns I am happy to turn over the blog today to Linda Thornton, who shares her unique history. Linda tells her story clearly and succinctly. I…
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Beginners/Middlers/Enders
Karen Douglass, Author 