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Book Review: The Canon I wrote a quick review of my latest read, but I wanted to expand a little more about the actual writing of the book for this week's Postbox. Here is the original review, from Goodreads: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier My rating:... Continue Reading →
It's NaNoWriMo? Are you writing yet? For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, or NOVEMBER. Millions of people join together in the common goal of completing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Sounds impossible? Not so, my friend. Some years ago, friends talked me into giving NaNo a whack. I mostly did... Continue Reading →
I've got to be honest: the writerly juices just haven't been flowing into the valley of personal gratification lately. I've been spending so much time writing for others that I haven't given more than a drop's thought to my own creative streams. I guess that is why I started the Postbox; to jam the wellhead in... Continue Reading →
A friend shared this poem with me a few months ago. I am certain she was not complimenting me. Probably more of a call to action. Nevertheless, it is beautiful and I would love to share... To Be of Use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the... Continue Reading →
Comma Drama Commas. Indecisive little buggers. Commas in numbers, commas in names, quotational commas, commas before conjunctions, parenthetical commas, commas after interjections, commas in series, restrictive commas, adjective commas, comma faults (!). Commas, commas everywhere. I took a little editing test last night, and as I poured over each and every comma placement, I thought there... Continue Reading →
Off to the North Shore, so no words of writerly wisdom this week or next. Stay Tuned for Episode 6 in a few weeks! If you need me, I'll be around the fire, KJ
A Book Review I have never enjoyed reading grammar rules before, so this week, Writers' Postbox gets a little Goodreads book review: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty My rating: 5 of 5 stars For years I have frequented Grammar Girl's website when confronted with grammatical confusions of all... Continue Reading →
Darlings I was looking for something in my journal and came across this flash of an entry. It was inspiring, even though I only wrote it two months ago. July 2016 I wrote today. It was draining. I have been plugging along, giving the thing a once over with an ear for all my notes,... Continue Reading →
Writers' Block So writers' block is a thing. It can be a lot like wanting to gnaw your own arm off. I spent some words on the topic back in January, but a few more might be in order. Like how to get over it. I'm sure everyone has their tricks, but in my estimation, we... Continue Reading →
Writing Prompts I'm not big on them. I've encouraged my children to use them. I've read a good number of them. I've even thought, 'Hey, that one looks okay.' But actually taking up the challenge? Not so much. It may have been the recent freelance work - where I'm given exactly three things to turn... Continue Reading →
We write for a whole pile of reasons... We write because we want to. Sigh. We write because we need to. Therapy, anyone? No, thank you; I write for a living :). We write because someone is paying us to do so. I, for instance, just finished a touching freelance series of tutoring adverts. Real tear-jerkers.... Continue Reading →
Natalie Goldberg - the same Natalie Goldberg that challenged me to attack the why of my writing life - is nothing, if not full of challenges. If you haven't picked up Writing Down the Bones yet, you should. For a bit I used each 1-2 page essay as a writing prompt, but sometimes I just needed to keep... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 