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Considering a MFA program? Read this first!
I'm all set to graduate from what I believe to be a stellar MFA program on January 17th. Could there really be something I didn't learn? Would prestigious, world-renown faculty really leave something out?
Recently, I came across an article from Writer’s Digest titled “What They Don’t Teach You in MFA Programs: 5 Rules for Writing Stories That Work” by Chris Mooney, a “Bestselling author and creative writing instructor.” I was obviously intrigued because I’m all set to graduate from what I believe to be a stellar MFA program on January 17th. Could there really be something I didn’t learn? Would…
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Write the Year 2023—Week 48: Heading
I’m heading back to the picket line in the morning; there’s a review I should have written tonight. And one can only avoid writing a sonnet for so long. I’m thinking of a specific photo that I do not have the strength to look for tonight, but it was from one of those black-and-white photo challenges. I came across the plants in the summer this year and the years plus the season made for a stark…
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Good Things Coming
Kicking my own ass in November... but somehow it worked?
As November winds down, my deadlines are fast encroaching. Despite the odds, I’m mostly on track to finish everything! Though all of the open calls I was planning on submitting to this month decided to gang up on me and all have deadlines on the 30th of November, I’ve mostly beaten them through planning. Who would have thought it?
Certainly not past-Hannah. She was going to become an author……
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2021 April PAD Challenge Day 22 - 'Natural Healing'
2021 April PAD Challenge Day 22 – ‘Natural Healing’
Day 21’s prompt: Write a nature poem
‘Natural Healing’
I feel the wind
Healing me gradually
My soul at peace
In field of green
All of my anxiety
Slowly dwindling
As I can finally see
The joy in everything
If I just stop and breathe
In these verdant surroundings…
Like this poem? Read more in my first poetry collection, ‘The Awakening’, available NOW!Paperback…
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So You're Participating In NaNoWriMo
So You’re Participating In NaNoWriMo
This is a re-post, slightly updated.
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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which is all about getting creative writers motivated to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, is ending today. If you’ve been participating in this, awesome. Go you.
Seriously, good for you. Whether you’re doing this for the first time just for the fun of it or you’ve always wanted to take a serious crack at…
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Reflections
November is Writer’s Digest Poem-A-Day Challenge. Robert Brewer posts a prompt each day online during the month here. The author can choose to post his work on the site to let others comment or not.
The prompt for Nov. 9th was “Reflections.” My response read like this:
Reflections
A mirror never lies
when the eyes of the beholder peer
at wrinkles and saggy places.
Sometimes I wish the looking…
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Cassandra Clare gives writing advice in Writer's Digest interview
Cassandra Clare gives writing advice in Writer’s Digest interview
Writer’s Digestpublished an interview with Cassandra Clare right before Christmas and since it’s a really great and insightful interview, I wanted to share it with our readers. It’s titled “YA Author Cassandra Clare Reveals the Practical Magic Behind Her Bestselling ‘Shadowhunter’ Series” and fans who are budding authors get very useful writing advice. Furthermore, Cassie revealed how she…
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I wrote a book & now what?
I wrote a book & now what?
Now what? I get to write it all over again.
In early March I got a great rejection from a literary agent.
Wait – did I say great rejection? Well yes, I did. The agent had requested the full MS of my mystery/crime novel, and after reading it, told me (after politely rejecting it): “While your story has good characters and setting, and you’ve a good voice, I found the pace to be more meditative…
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Baby's First Birthday & A Foreshadowed Change
Baby’s First Birthday & A Foreshadowed Change
Effective this past Friday, March 26th, The Sword & Shield has been available to the public for a year. It is officially one year old, which hardly seems real but apparently it is so I can deal with that reality in a future therapy session.
So many amazing opportunities and experiences have opened up to me courtesy of this debut novel and I would not be where I am without the love and support of…
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Writer's Digest Short Story Competition
Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition
Nothing had been the same since Mary had died. He hadn’t realized how much he’d miss her until she was gone. No one can prepare you for the emptiness of grief until it’s all you have to fill the lonely days and longer nights. It wasn’t just her presence that he missed. It was how she’d buttered his toast because of his arthritis and the way her hair had looked when she woke up—like a gale had…
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How to Start a New Writing Project
I'm feeling restless? Is it because Spring is almost here?
I’m feeling restless. Maybe my transitory lifestyle for the vast majority of the last two years has made a permanent alteration to my brain chemistry. But as I’m too broke to travel at the moment, I think I’m ready for my next writing project. I have a couple of ideas percolating, so as I try to narrow it down to a single focus, I thought I’d share some great tips on getting started that I found…
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Write the Year 2023—Week 37: Knurl
Not much time this week and not much in the well. Just a short Clogyrnach inspired (I guess) by the picture.
Title: KnurlWC: 24
Living green tumbles down in wavesConcrete’s pallor circling knavesBreath: a secret keptVoice: a landscape sweptRust-red, sinners sleptIn six graves
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2021 April PAD Challenge Day 30 - 'Goodbye'
2021 April PAD Challenge Day 30 – ‘Goodbye’
Day 30’s prompt: Write a goodbye poem
Goodbye to caringAbout pointless thingsFarewell to frettingOver middling worries,So long to stressingUntil point of explosion,Hello now to absorbingEverything slowly-Not lackadaisically,Just focused and sensibly.
Like this poem? Read more in my first poetry collection, ‘The Awakening’, available NOW!Paperback…
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