Posted in Personal Essays on Jul 23rd, 2010
In Part 1 of these posts, I explained why I wrote Polish and Publish and how I did the research for it. In this post, I’ll cover how I decided what to include and what to leave out. The most challenging question revolved around whether or not to suggest resources for specific types of writing, [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on Jul 15th, 2010
Polish and Publish: The Indispensable Toolkit for Creative Writers is nearly ready for prime time. (Seems like I’ve been saying that for months!) It’s in its final stages of design and layout now, and I plan to have it here on my website in a matter of weeks. More people than I would ever have [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on May 11th, 2010
Posted in Personal Essays on Apr 12th, 2010
Posted in Personal Essays on Apr 3rd, 2010
Well, I’ve managed to overcome my embarrassment enough to post a piece I submitted to More magazine online that was rejected. (See previous post, below.) Far and away, most submitted writing is rejected because the writing is poor. I don’t think that’s why mine was unacceptable. I do know how to write. So, as promised, [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on Apr 2nd, 2010
When I started this blog I promised to share some of the few works I’ve submitted for publication that were rejected—and explain why I think the work wasn’t accepted. So, it is with a certain amount of embarrassment that I’m fulfilling that promise here. Before I submitted an essay to More magazine online that they accepted [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on Mar 15th, 2010
I slept through two nights of roaring winds that bent aged, 30-foot tall trees in our neighborhood outside of Boston. Then, my husband woke me this morning saying that we had no heat. Our basement—the basement of our house atop a steep hill—had flooded. How? Water can’t flow upwards, can it? Everyone’s theory, which seems [...]
Posted in Personal Essays on Oct 20th, 2009
Over the past 8 months or so, I’ve written more than 150 articles about writing careers for Examiner.com. It’s been tons of fun. Writing my Examiner.com articles leads me to folks I wouldn’t have access to otherwise. But it can’t compete with the satisfaction I get from teaching and writing about Tools & Tactics for [...]