Write anyway20091118100800
Write anyway
November 18, 20090 comments
My writer friends and I spend an awful lot of time talking about procrastination, our failure to write, the way our kids’ needs and our messy ho...
Word of the year20091117134400
Word of the year
November 17, 20090 comments
“Unfriend” is the word of 2009, according to Oxford New American Dictionary. ...
Long-form journalism on the web20091117130600
Long-form journalism on the web
November 17, 20090 comments
Nineteen thousand words about the Mumbai terrorism attack — is that too many words for a blog entry? This week, Virginia Quarterly Review begins...
Writing moms20091116095400
Writing moms
November 16, 20091 comment
A couple of helpful posts on writing through parenthood — rules to live and work by. Here’s one from memoirist Louise deSalvo, at Christ...
The old days20091113102100
The old days
November 13, 20090 comments
Almost twenty years ago, I was a young assistant editor working on book excerpts, short stories, and essays for Ladies’ Home Journal. The older...