Poets & Writers always taps into what I need to hear when I need to hear it. Each time an issue makes its way to mailbox #10H, I find that it takes on all of the same questions I've been toiling over for quite some time. While I wish it would always give me the answers …
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Trim the Fat: Kurt Vonnegut
Writers are so often pigeonholed as alcoholic smokers that I grew up thinking that my passion for words could only be realized with a few too many stiff drinks and an addictive personality. I’ve come to find that there are all kinds of writers with all kinds of coping mechanisms to escape, support, and in …
Taking the Recommended Dosage of Chill Pills
When I was a kid my dad used to tell me that for every year that passes, the next one goes even faster. I knew he was right but it isn't until you work full-time and your days are chopped and measured that you realize it. So of course I've been filling my days to …
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Baby’s First (un)Workshop
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 …
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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