Aug 21, 2018 | Culture, Learning curve, Writing life | 0 Comments
I’m always up for a discussion about reader’s taste. On August 4, 2018 literary critic Adam Kirsch wrote a thoughtful piece titled “The Way We Read Now” in the Wall Street Journal. There he posits that we can educate our literary taste.
Aug 7, 2018 | Culture, Learning curve, Writing life | 2 Comments
Disaster is the worst kind of distraction. Disasters upend daily routine and reset expectations to a default, anything-could-happen mode. I dumped a drink on my MacBook Air. I tried every resuscitation method I could think of, but machine did not respond. Off to the Genius Bar we went. Then the real drama started.
Jul 10, 2018 | Fun, Learning curve, Writing life | 0 Comments
At a recent author reading, stepping into Nellie’s persona freed me to be more expressive. I felt like a kid in a Halloween costume emboldened to ask for candy from complete strangers! It was so much easier for me as Nellie to ask for an audience’s attention for her story than for me as an author to ask for attention for my book.
Jun 26, 2018 | Culture, Learning curve | 1 Comment
We live in an age of distractions. Like germs in the air we breathe, we can tolerate few disturbances with no ill effect. But the constant battle for our attention can trigger an I-just-don’t-care-anymore numbness that leads to anxiety, apathy, and burnout.
Jun 19, 2018 | Learning curve, Writing life | 2 Comments
If you have a story to tell, you might want to consider attending a writers’ conference. Not everyone wants to write or publish their stories, but if you dream of seeing your byline on a story in a magazine or holding your hot-off-the-presses book with your name printed across a knockout cover, what should you do?
Oct 31, 2017 | Learning curve, Travel, Writing life | 3 Comments
Sydney Avey Dynamic Women — Changing Times Home About Books Publications Blog Events Contact Women Writing the West: Conference Tidbits Women Writing the West aims to create a literary explosion comparable to the Southern literary renaissance of the 1930s. Any setting...