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Fiction

Sweet News…

18.10.2011

Just want to crow… One of my stories, “Anna Goes on Vacation,” will be in the November/December 2011 issue of Ladybug. I’m thrilled. I sent this in and sold it so long ago (2004) that I actually forgot about it. I’ve sold and had published several pieces in Ladybug, as well as pieces in Spider [...]

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Story, Anyone?

08.10.2011

I know I’ve mentioned this before. I must have because I see it all the time in manuscripts and it continues to irk me. Instead of a story, the writer has written a scene. If your character doesn’t want anything, if he doesn’t need anything, if he is perfectly happy and just goes about his [...]

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Comfort Reading

08.09.2011

I’m a huge fan of comfort food. There’s nothing in the world that a good dish of hot, creamy mac and cheese can’t fix. Just saying. Some people find comfort from settling in and watching old movies. Sometimes, though, it can be a book that lets you downshift and exhale. I’m reading one of those [...]

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Writer’s Dirt

12.07.2011

Last night I was reading an interesting take on writer’s block. In an article in The Writer (“Survivor Out of Carolina,” August 2011), Dorothy Allison talks about her “three-year interruption where everything I wrote was dirt.” Like Allison, I always equated block with not being able to write. But she says it’s otherwise: “No, you [...]

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