This post was inspired by another by a fabulous blogger I know named Alison of Writing, Wishing. In her post, she outlines some very helpful tips for how to handle writer rejection. I read her post as a writer and was reminded of my first writer rejection. It was from a national magazine that I [...]
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In thinking about what to do about my postings here, I returned to the above quote by Virginia Woolf. Writing what you wish to write. I don’t have long stretches of time to write, but I do sometimes have time to write pithy posts. But I never do that here. More here than Short Little [...]
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I was in high school in the late nineties, a time when the Internet was still mostly a new thing and AOL chat rooms and Instant Messenger were all the rage. Back then, the Internet wasn’t really trusted. In English class, my teacher, Ms. Bach talked about these things called primary and secondary sources. The [...]
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Why did I quit my “mommy” blog? I quit because I had, in the simplest terms, outgrown the space. I was ready to talk about more than just motherhood and wanted to speak more to my new experiences as a writer and didn’t feel like I could really do that there. That’s the simple answer. [...]
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This wasn’t the planned first post for this blog, but that’s okay. I promise to be back with a better explanation of what has changed with my blog and why I left MNR tomorrow. But, today, I had to write to let you know that I have an essay up on Huffington Post called, “What [...]
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