Writing Motherhood

On this sunny Mother’s Day I want to share a couple of blog posts about motherhood that touched me today. Casey (Raising Smart Girls) writes poignantly of seeing herself in her daughter: “She, like me, wears all her emotions on her sleeve. Great love, great disappointment, great anguish, great sadness, great anger, sometimes cycling through …

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Links for Writers: Get Inspired

Links for Writers

From The Lit Coach (Erin Reel): “When Passion and Purpose Align” (an inspiring look at why we write; also listen to Erin on “The Book Is Your Hook” radio program) Writers, you can’t wonder about your ability to write, your talent, whether or not your book will sell to an agent, to a publisher and …

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Misc. Links for Writers

Links for Writers

For a few weeks now I’ve been collecting interesting blog posts and other sites as I find them to share on the weekends as Bookmarkable! links. However, there is so much good information and writing that comes our way each day through inboxes and feed readers and Twitter and Facebook that I am going to …

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Memory List at 47

Since last week’s post about Malcolm Gladwell, I’ve been thinking of ways to remind myself everyone and everything has a story to tell. One terrific idea comes from Jane at youonlyhavetogetthrutoday: write a Memory List. When I first read Jane’s list, I was struck by how many of her memories resonated with my own–the Weekly …

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