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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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Get Second Sight

28.03.2011

I’ve been waiting for this book ever since I read in Cheryl Klein‘s blog that she was publishing it. Second Sight is a collection of her talks at various writing conferences, between 2003 and 2010, as well as her blog posts. It was worth the wait. From picture books to YA, Cheryl covers: what makes [...]

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Location, Location, Location

15.02.2011

I’ve been re-reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones. I’m not sure why I waited so long to revisit this book, but I’m glad I pulled it off the shelves again. One chapter that I zeroed in on was “Writing in Restaurants.” I love her advice: you must establish a relationship with your cafe. I [...]

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Show Me

30.01.2011

When I was in my twenties, I became obsessed with photography. Me and my Olympus SLR went everywhere together. I asked a photographer I knew if he’d look at some of my pics so I could improve my skills. He said fine. I shot three roles of film. Granted they were color, not black and [...]

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