Archives in Category: Writing

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In Case You’re Curious

I don’t have a gigantic readership for my blog, and I don’t stand on street corners shouting about its relevance. Still, when people learn I’ve blogged 16 of the past 20 years, they’re curious and ask questions about the process.

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No Resolutions

It’s the first day of the new year, and I’m moving away from a holiday of rest and relaxation toward a more structured routine for the weeks to come. That includes a return to regular blogging, as well as regular

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Three Books

Each Christmas three books, all related to the season, make an appearance in our home.

The first is a children’s story, The Littlest Angel, by Charles Tazewell, published in 1949. It tells the tale of the littlest angel – we

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1440

I don’t remember how I came across the free online news feed called “1440,” but I’ve subscribed for a couple months now.

I like the logic behind the name: that the printing press was invented around the year 1440 (although

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Back to Blogging in Real Time

If you followed this blog in November, you know I participated in NANOWRIMO, the annual event where people write 50,000 words in 30 days. There are no gold medals for the winners, no hefty book contracts, no fanfare. Just the

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Midway Point

It’s the middle of November, and I’m still in search of 15,000 words. I’ve got a good start, but it’s going more slowly than anticipated. Still, with two full weeks to go, there’s ample time to sprint to the finish

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From the Archives

Tomorrow I’m starting a one-month writing project to find 15,000 additional words for a novel I wrote years ago. It sounds quirky, retro, questionable, but it’s one of those things on my bucket list that I keep coming back to.

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NANOWRIMO

Na-No-Wri-Mo is shorthand for National Novel Writing Month, always held in November each year. It’s the brainchild of Chris Baty who founded it in 1999 as a challenge to everyone or anyone or someone to write 50,000 words in the

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Modern Love

The New York Times Sunday edition has a page buried in one of its lower alphabet sections called “Modern Love.” On this one page are usually two stories about the topic, one long and detailed; the other about one hundred

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Thank You

If you read my blog regularly, you know I’m editing a novel that I wrote over 30 years ago. It details one woman’s experiences dating in the 1990s, long before chat rooms, It’s Just Lunch, Bumble, Match, and all those

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