Why every writer should attend a writing conference

“Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; …

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See what’s become of me: My 2011 Writing Timeline

Time, time, time See what’s become of me, while I look around for my possibilities… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd4QJBEMvk] It’s the springtime of my life. I’m not sure I felt that way before doing this retrospective exercise of creating a 2011 writing timeline. I wasn’t looking for moments of success, necessarily—instead I focused on moments that seemed important …

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