You could decide to start right now
We’ve reached the halfway point of November and NaNoWriMo. How is your writing going? Maybe you’ve fallen off the pace or missed several days of writing or just never got it together. That’s okay. You...
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Turning over a new leaf
(Not this one. This is an old leaf.) With the year winding down and new calendars waiting in the wings, it’s a good time for dreaming about where we want to go with our writing next year. Regardless of...
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New calendar
Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, was depicted with two opposing faces because he both looked back over what had transpired and forward to what was to come. Think back over the past...
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What’s in a line?
“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the...
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Celebrating Walt Whitman
From the Brooklyn Poets web site: To celebrate the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth on May 31, 2019, Brooklyn Poets invites you to submit a poem to our Whitman Bicentennial Poetry Contest in...
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I suspect this is the most frequently unasked question for visitors to this site. A recent blog post by Erica Goss (https://ericagoss.com/2019/02/25/writing-at-a-non-writers-retreat/) describes...
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Beth Nguyen’s thoughtful article on writing workshops appeared at Literary Hub this week. She describes how her approach to critique changed when she began teaching nonfiction, work in which the...
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Early-bird deadline today
Today is the last day to get the lower early-bird rate for the Carnegie Center’s 2019 Books in Progress Conference. For full information and to register, visit...
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“Notes of encouragement to new writers” is the theme this month at Smack Dab in the Middle, a blog by/for/about writing for middle grade students that — surprise! — has lots of great advice for writers...
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Short Story Month
Get ready, prose writers: the poets are about to pass the pen to you! May is Short Story Month! Read all about it here: http://shortstorymonth.com/about/ Find interviews, prompts, contests, challenges,...
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