Writing
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I follow a blog called Southern Roots and Northern Blossoms by my friend Shannon Anderson. She is a wonderful writer and blogger. (I copied that line directly from her blog about Jodie Llewellyn, but hey, it’s true!) Shannon saw a post on Jodie’s blog that Jodie originally saw on a blog called Brin’s The Book Blogger Test.…
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As most of you know, for someone who doesn’t “work”, I am always doing something. My most recent something was to participate with The Allegory Project as both an author and a designer. I had the opportunity to interpret the six In Print Writers’ Organization story submissions to be shown at the Studio Ghosts show…
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Have you ever read a story that you found so touching you were dying to share? Now, by “touching,” I mean a story that touched you in an immediate way—heartwarming… or… horrifying. One that tweaked your last nerve? Or your funny bone? Moved you to tears… or pissed you off? Curled your toes beneath the…
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Coming off a whirlwind weekend in Madison at the 25th annual Writers’ Institute, I am overwhelmed, exhausted and really really excited about the now and future of publishing. The four day event covered much more than I could possibly summarize in a single Monday Blog. The Institute offers sessions for every level, every genre, and…
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That’s it. That’s all I want from you. Just to read. Please. Read this blog, sure, but so much more. We don’t read enough. And even when we do, we don’t really. Raise your hand if you’re a skimmer. Oops, hard to type one handed. In my line of business (Blogging? Designing? Writing?), I spend…
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Writers and their blocks, I tell ya’. Seems as soon as we’ve broken through the writer’s block and put plenty of words to the page, it’s time for the chopping block where we cut ‘em all out again. The only thing harder than writing is editing. Personally, I kind of like the rewriting, most of…
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It’s that time of year again… the beginning of time. A New Year, a Fresh Start, the annual Calendar Reboot. Time for New Year’s Resolutions… Resolutions have been around, quite literally, forever. The ancient Babylonians made promises to their gods at the start of each year that they would return borrowed objects and pay their…
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Always Bring A Book. Abab, say it with me, ab ab. Always. Bring a book. A! Bab! Seriously, I have been caught twice in the last week WAITING with nothing to read. What was I thinking leaving the house without a book? I wasn’t thinking. Well, I was thinking it would only take a minute.…
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