Bookmarkable! 25. 11. 7. 4.

It’s Bookmarkable Friday! Don’t worry. You don’t have to stretch your brain to figure out what the next number is in the sequence. 🙂 The following bookmarkable blogs are strictly by the numbers. Enjoy! Top 25 Reasons Submissions Are Rejected This post from The Blood Red Pencil is from last September, but I just discovered …

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When life gives you snow…

Like artist and writer Rebekah Joy Plett, I’m getting a little tired of snow. Unlike Rebekah, however, I didn’t think to turn the white stuff into an opportunity to exercise my creativity. Be sure to take a peek at the artistic snow sculpture she shared on her blog today, part of her 2011 No-Holds-Barred 365 …

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Creative Distractions

First things first: If you read these posts through email or an RSS feed (thank you for subscribing!) and haven’t seen the new background photo on the blog’s website, please take a moment at some point to check it out. The photo was taken by my very good friend Caroline who has an excellent eye …

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Make Your Weirdness Count

“[Writing] is the place where the things that make you weird, the things about yourself that you know are different and even difficult, count the most.” ~ Linda LaPlante, The Making of a Story Before we dive into weirdness, I must say how blown away I am by the response to yesterday’s post after it …

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On Showing Up

Whether you prefer the idea of a genius with time management issues or a zinn that can sometimes wreak havoc with our minds, the important point is that we need only to do our part, to show up. Or, in Sage Cohen’s words, to “honor and cultivate the balance and delight of your existence here on Earth.”