Readers, Are You Reading?

I’ve been an avid reader for decades but lately I find that I get sidetracked all the time with a million other things. Most notably in recent years, the Internet. I read, I read all day. I read websites, I read blogs, […]

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Telling the Editor to Shut Up

Here is a great article from Publishing Talk regarding NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges.   My favorite part of the article is what the author, Sarah Salway says about an excerpt from Art and Fear: It reminds me of a famous experiment […]

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NaNoWriMo: On Your Marks, Get Set…

NaNoWriMo begins tomorrow, November 1. The goal of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is to power your way through to completing a 50,000 word Novel. That’s about 1500 to 2000 words per day, which is a lot, but the idea is to […]

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Ernest Hemingway’s Short Stories a Mixed Bag

So, I spent a lot of time with Hemingway’s Short Stories this summer. I really didn’t care for a lot of them, so it was quite a slog. I initially thought that it was just me. After all this was Hemingway and […]

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