What motivates you when life gets in the way of your best-laid plans? Starting last Wednesday morning, all my plans have been blown away as if a tornado came through and did its job. I’m fine. Nothing really happened, but I feel like I’ve been knocked sideways and don’t know how to right myself. Today […]
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Are you one of the people who “hope” for 100 rejections this year and are therefore submitting work to the places you sincerely hope to be published in? Are you a person who has a deadline to finish your novel or memoir, or poetry collection, or play? Are you a reader waiting [im]patiently for your […]
Before you go down the road of outrage about political correctness or censorship, please consider this: Because we all watch television, or participate in social media, or binge watch Netflix, or go to movies, or plays, or dinner with friends, we have a shorthand for what we see, read, or hear. If someone says the […]
Turned in the rough draft of the play on time. I also met a deadline for a grant that I learned about only two days before. What will the results be? One result is that I now know I can do more than I think I can in two days. Another is I now have […]
I not only belong to the group Women Who Submit, I lead a chapter of WWS in El Cajon, California, where I live. Women Who Submit is a group that was created to empower women writers to submit their work for publication. My group began in January of this year, and meets monthly. Like all […]
Submissions to journals this year: 47 Withdrawals (due to acceptance elsewhere): 1 Actual rejections (vs no response): 22 Acceptances: 7′ Those numbers mean I’ve had a 15% acceptance rate so far this year, and as you can see, there are still 25 places I haven’t heard back from. One of the rejections I received this […]
The end of the year, that is. Tomorrow is voting day in the US in many places. Remember to vote if that’ s happening where you live. I have one more writing residency before year-end, and seven more essays to write to achieve my 52 essays for the year. One a week, that was the […]
Today my favorite indie bookstore (Another Read Through in Portland, Oregon) announced that from now on we can buy NEW BOOKS on their website. I always order new books from my store, but this will make it so much easier. As you know, that big online bookstore drove almost every bookseller in the country out […]
If you’ve done The Artist’s Way by Julie Cameron (I did the three books in a row, doing the exercises daily for twelve weeks, several years ago), you know the importance of taking yourself on an Artist Date once a week. I’ve been writing daily for years, but I’m not diligent about that important date. […]
I have signed with Launch Point Press to publish several volumes of my poetry. The first collection will be out in a few months, and will feature lesbian love poems. Meanwhile, my writing group back in Portland is having another fabulous reading event, with authors, books, signings, raffles, prizes, even a costume contest. All FREE! […]
