Originally posted on the love story project:
I spent a couple hours deep cleaning my home on Tuesday. It started with my desk, which needed dusting and de-cluttering so I could sit…
the fear of success (subtitle: wtf?)
Literary Magazine Wishes
This may open me to accusations of being lazy, picky, snobby, or not snobby enough, but here’s what I wish for in a litmag I’m going to submit my work to: 1) […]
Congrats to Sirens Katie Riegel, Lisa Lanser Rose, and Sister Sirens
Great Day for Women Writers! We’re proud to announce that Katie Riegel, many sister Sirens, and I have work appearing this stunning issue of The Florida Review. It is packed cover-to-cover with some of the […]
Murder, Circus, and Birds: Some Thoughts on Writing
I was super excited to be asked to write for the Gloria Sirens. I was given choices, and I chose writing about writing because I thought it would be easiest. Not quite. […]
Why do I write what I do?
By Gloria Muñoz “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, […]
I Was a Digital Best-Seller!
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz gives an inside look at digital publishing and his opinion of digital books versus paper (“real”) books, based on his experience writing a 40,000-word piece […]
We Submit, and We Submit
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog:
A guest post from Risa Polansky Shiman: We call them Summer Submission Parties. Every two weeks, my MFA friends and I reserve a classroom from the English…
Feeding the White Elephant: Three Ways to Make the Writing Life Work
My friend and sister Siren Susan Lilley tapped me for a blog tour on writing processes. Writing about writing is serious work for us, but whatever Susan instigates, you can bet it’ll feel like […]
On Rejection
–by Katherine Riegel 1. I got one rejection yesterday (all rejections come by email these days) and promptly forgot it. Then two this morning, and I remembered yesterday’s like a stone thrown […]
My Relationship. With Writing.
By Susan Lilley Another stop on the writing process blog tour! First, a big shout out to Darlyn Finch Kuhn, who invited me into this chain of discussions about writing. Darlyn is […]
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