One morning last week, I woke up to a rejection in my inbox. I’m as accustomed to these emails as any writer, but this was a particularly rough moment for me. I’d been riding high, because several agents have requested my full manuscript recently, and I was hoping that meant an offer would be coming […]
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I Am My Own Educator
I’m going to confess something to you. Sometimes I feel like I’m not a “real” writer, because I don’t have an MFA. I am fortunate to have two degrees from wonderful education programs, one in music, and the other in humanistic and multicultural education. I have also taken classes from many excellent writing institutions. But […]
When The Writing Gets Hard
Last week on Pinterest… (doesn’t that sound like the intro for a really boring sitcom?) I read and pinned a blog post claiming to help me write 10,000 words in a single day. The author of the post made some good points, and although 10,000 is an impossible goal for someone who doesn’t write full-time (as the author […]
Work Begets Work
Have you ever sat down at the end of a busy day of work and thought, “I can’t believe I accomplished so much in such a short time?” Have you ever found yourself in the middle of the afternoon on a weekend, wondering how you could have spent almost an entire day without doing anything productive? That’s […]
Who’s Your “Creativity Role Model?”
Do you have a role model for creativity? You should. Creativity fuels every profession, from business to education to the arts. It helps us work better and smarter; to find solutions where there seemed to be none; to nurture passions. We should all strive to be more creative, and every striver needs a role model for inspiration. […]
Creative Ways To Reconnect
Before I get into the topic of this post, you’re probably wondering how the big, scary transition is going so far. If I had to describe my first week of work in one word, it would be unexpected. First, it was unexpected that my son would wake up with a fever on the last day […]