This weekend I will go on my first writing retreat. As we know, it's hard for me to believe that I am a "writer." I sometimes feel like a cat in a dog suit. So this is my chance to finally believe myself. I will be attending Highlights Foundation's Unworkshop. I don't quite remember what …
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Cheap Courage Giveaway!
I'm having a giveaway to celebrate my 365th consecutive writing day (and first rest day)! Scroll down to see the prizes and how to enter. GRAND PRIZE - A Writer's Essentials Pack Stephen King's On Writing, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, and a 3 pack of my favorite size of Moleskines. RUNNER-UP - A One …
The Victim of a Busy Mind
I want to do everything. This year I discovered that I can change my life to become one in which writing is a large part of it. Now that I have the time and energy to do this the ideas are flowing, but not in the same vein. I am a melting mountaintop depositing little …
Independence on Fire Island – Travel Blog #1
In the 2013 edition of Best American Travel Writing, Elizabeth Gilbert notes the two most important facts she’s learned about travel writing: There is no story in the world so marvelous that it cannot be told boringly. There is no story in the world so boring that it cannot be told marvelously. In fact, she …
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Are you following @AustinKleon?
HAPPY FRIDAY! HAPPY FOLLOW FRIDAY! I found Austin’s book, Share Like an Artist, a couple of weeks ago and he is helping me so much with this blog, my writing life, and probably my regular life too. He is the author of Steal Like an Artist, which I have yet to read but I imagine …
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