Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Missing in action, trying to get back to words

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I normally update this blog at least once a week. So it felt funny last week when Tuesday rolled by, then Friday, and I hadn't posted an...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Literary publications, contests and submissions guidelines available on the Web

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In a continued effort to plump up the "Writers' Tools" section of this blog (and for my own use, so I'll have one place to...
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Friday, January 9, 2009

Writer Profile: Mary Amato

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Mary Amato is a Maryland writer who writes children’s books and teaches workshops on writing for children at the Writers Center in Bethesda ...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Where have all the newspaper pages gone?

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I went back to North Carolina for the holidays and was saddened when I picked up a copy of the Winston-Salem Journal ; it has continued to s...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

What's the difference between art and just a good idea?

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In my last post , I described some of the ideas/projects that I came up with this year, which I've since had to abandon due to lack of t...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Call Outs called off—
Culling the unnecessary in order to write

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In another of what is proving to be my continuing series of learning to let go of things I don't really need to do, I'm calling off ...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Why a raconteur should never fear consulting a dictionary

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As a child, I never heard anyone pronounce the word “ennui.” The rural Southern people I grew up with were too busy to be bored and the mome...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Is Google book search a good or bad thing for writers?

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Last week I created a "Special Features" section on this blog and helpfully included a "Writers' Tools" link, only t...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

And then there were two...

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The first few weeks of a blog are like a new love affair—you want to spend time with it every day. And then the relationship sets in and the...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Writer Profile: Barry Yeoman

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I met Barry Yeoman when we were both reporters in North Carolina. I was running the Winston-Salem Journal ’s one-woman bureau office in Boon...