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What does it mean to be a “tween”? Alex Banks (aka Ali Cross) tackles this question today regarding her twin boys, who are nearly thirteen. Her post is part of Emblazon’s monthly feature, Tween the Weekends (visit the TTW page and join in)! I’ve been thinking about the question, too. A couple of weekends ago I …
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair… “Sunday Morning,” by Wallace Stevens David Foster Wallace’s Advice to College Graduates If you read or watch nothing else in this week’s list of links, devote ten minutes to this 2005 speech given by David Foster Wallace to Kenyon College graduates: Carl …
A question that nearly all writers who are bloggers—especially writers who are in the early years of their career—often ask, if only to themselves, is whether they should include on their blog any parts of their works in progress, or if they can ever turn what they blog into a traditionally published book. There is …
More and more, I am realizing that I still have much to learn about who I am, who I am not, how it differs from who I want to be, and how all of that affects my writing. Self-knowledge, however, requires something harder and harder to come by these days: solitude. In one of his …
“It may be a book that will change the course of my life… I have yet to discover a micro-chapter or 140 character status update that holds my attention or imagination.” ~ Erin Reel The following guest post by Erin Reel was first published in 2011 on my former blog site, and it is an …