It has not been easy to make the time for my 600 words a day. Again and again, I feel…
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I’m still recovering from last week’s backpacking trip, but that’s no excuse not to start up my writing challenge as…
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At long last, the rejection came in for that story I eventually inquired on. I’m not surprised that it was…
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In just over a month, I’m going to be hiking over 100 miles of the Idaho Centennial Trail from Nevada…
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I did finally send that email query regarding my story that had not received a response within the magazine’s specified…
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One of the things that I learned from doing the 2nd workshop assignment is something that I already knew, but…
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Yesterday my husband asked me about how my writing workshop/class was going. I told him that I’d turned in my…
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I’ve got a story out on submission that has been out for long enough that the magazine recommends querying. But…
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I’m starting an online writing workshop through WMG Publishing today. I was so excited about receiving the pre-workshop, getting started…
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Dean Wesley Smith is spending some time digging into writers’ fears over on his blog. The fear of success, the…
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