I was talking with my mom the other day about inspiration. She's an artist (working in clay these days - check out her blog: Burning Clay) and she told me she took a long drive back to her home town recently to soak up some of her heritage for … [Continue reading] about Environmental Heritage as Inspiration
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My POD Book Arrived This Morning
My new Print On Demand (POD) book just arrived in the mail. To be clear, this isn't what I consider a "real" book. It's not a novel, or even an organized work of non-fiction. It's a collection of blog posts that I cut and pasted into an application … [Continue reading] about My POD Book Arrived This Morning
Literary Journals
I just finished reading the Winter/Spring edition of Gulf Coast. To be honest, I didn't read every word. I'm not huge on poetry, which it publishes a lot of, but the fiction and non-fiction were stunning. There's something so immediate about … [Continue reading] about Literary Journals
Fear The Frog
About a year ago I wrote a post about avoiding cliché in my writing. This month's issue of Poets & Writers brings us an article titled "Consider the Orange," written by Benjamin Percy, which has the topic bouncing in my head again. In the piece … [Continue reading] about Fear The Frog
The Bias Against Print-On-Demand
Here it is - the Month Without Monsanto blog in book form. Well, here's a mock up of the cover at least. In case you're new, I created this book to give as a thank you to folks who donated to my new Digging Deep food awareness campaign (our new … [Continue reading] about The Bias Against Print-On-Demand
Did I Say 100 Days Of Writing?
Today is the first of November and the internet is a buzz with talk of the annual NaNoWriMo challenge. If you haven't heard, it's a website that challenges writers to to spill out 50,000 words in one month. The basic rules are that it has to be a … [Continue reading] about Did I Say 100 Days Of Writing?
Submission
I once heard someone somewhere say that you can tell a lot about a profession by how one finds work. A business man applies for a job. Actors audition. Athletes try out. Writers submit. We submit short stories to literary journals. We submit query … [Continue reading] about Submission