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Vermont College of Fine Arts: The Adventure Begins Today!
Wow! Today is the day, my lovely friends. A big suitcase is packed with books, pens and winter gear, and the family are left with detailed instructions on how to survive without me for the next ten days, as this mama writer embarks on an amazing adventure. Not counting fairytale-like stories and plays I penned as a child, or…
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Unplugging
Hi, all! This is a page from my beloved planner. (Don’t know about you guys, but I can’t live without my planner!) All these crazy numbers basically mean one thing — revisions. They mean this: my cave awaits. In other words, I might not be the most chatty person on the Internet in the next several weeks.…
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Writing Goals: A Progress Report
Just a little more than a month ago I blogged about my new — or updated — writing goals. Writing vows, I called them. Summer is often my time to take stock, and re-adjusting my goals is one way I try to make sure I stay on the right writing track. This post is an update, for anyone…
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Let’s Talk About Writers And Social Media
I attended this workshop at my local library last week in which a marketing and PR consultant talked to writers about navigating the brave new world of social media. And do you know what everyone said at the end of the guy’s talk? How informative it was. Well, of course it was informative. The insane…
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Psst… an admission: I haven’t really been writing. But that’s okay.
I haven’t really been writing. Wow — just saying this — writing this now feels huge, ominous, like saying, I am an alcoholic. But it is the truth. (Not the alcoholic part, thank goodness, the not-writing part, I mean). Well, I should amend this by saying I’ve been writing every day for my job. You…
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Long Promised, Not Yet Complete (But Definitely Getting There): List of Best YA Historical Fantasy
What do you get if you take history and fiction, and add a dash of magic? Fabulous reads rooted in history, filled with mystery and imagination. Time travel, other realms, the 19th century, the 16th or the 20th… possibilities are endless. Below, I offer you the list of the best historical fantasy. I will be working…
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Can I? Will I?
I haven’t even started working yet … this coming Monday is the big day, and already, the stress is eating me up from the inside… can I do both? Can I do both? Or actually, can I do all three? 1. Work — and do a good job — be that proper cool capable in-control Patch editor…
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This Literary Mama Is Going Back To Work
Ah the peaceful afternoons filled with writing-ruminating-Facebook-checking. If you still got them, enjoy them. Mine are about to go. It’s one more week at home for me. And then — after ten years with my kids and my writing, this literary mama is going back to work. As I mentioned in last week’s post, I’ll be working…
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The Call of Adventure
Here I am crafting my latest story, mostly plotting right now. Using myths and age-old storytelling tricks to bend and twist my emerging book into shape. If you read Joseph Campbell’s “Hero With A Thousand Faces,” then you may know about how every story is at heart really an adventure, with a usually reluctant hero facing…
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