Category: Writing Discipline

  • What Is Writerly Success?

    What is the measure of a writer’s success? Is it placement of a short story in a lit mag? Obtaining an agreement with an agent?…

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  • The Writers’ Workshop*

    Disclaimer: Like earning a writing degree, or attending a writers’ conference, joining or starting a writers’ workshop can be a terrific way to procrastinate and…

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  • Quote and Comment, Butler

    In her essay “Furor Scribendi” Octavia Butler wrote: “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit…

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  • My Big Writerly Lesson for 2017

    I am happiest as a writer when I’m neck deep in the throes of creating a book-length manuscript. I already knew this. I found it…

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  • The Energy of Experience

    It is that moment when you are emotionally moved, when you are shocked, in awe. When damage is done or redemption is realized. The epiphany,…

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