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As I said in my last post , I signed up for NaNoWriMo a few days ago, with the goal of sitting down on November 1st and writing a novel from...

Like hundreds of aspiring novelists before me, I, too, have signed up for NaNoWriMo . What, you might ask, is NaNoWriMo? According to their...

After I wrote my post about Mary Amato's talk on revisions , in which she confessed that her last novel went through 56 drafts, I kept w...

I have talked a lot recently about journal keeping, but I've never actually shared anything from my journal in this blog. What's th...

Looking through an old journal recently, I was elated to find a photo of my Aunt Stella's bedroom pasted into one of its pages. It was w...

I went to a terrific workshop given by Mary Amato yesterday for SCBWI's Author Book Club . Her topic was Revision, specifically the 56...

 As evident in recent posts , I've become slightly obsessed with journals, mostly because I don't know what to do with my old journa...

A tiny sketch of San Miguel de Allende, which I drew while living there. As I quickly scanned through some of my old journals in preparat...

I wanted to write a post about the value of writing on paper—how it is preserved no matter the software system or hardware storage mechan...

After I uploaded my post on Deborah Berger , whose knitted pieces are on exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum , I regretted that I ...