I’m a writer. Being depressed is good for my art. 1. Literary Rejections on Display The blog is written by a “published, award-winning author of fiction and creative nonfiction”, who, of course, continues to receive rejection letters. Rejection letters – both form and with commentary – are sourced from the anonymous blog author as well as reader […]
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rogiepiano “How to Shorten a Manuscript” Sometimes there’s just no other way. “Just cut it, babe.” Wise, wise words.
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I acquire books the way some go for shoes: I see something I want and simply must have it. Before going shopping on Saturday I asked the Twitterverse to recommend poets I should read, and I received some good suggestions: Anne Sexton from @la_panique, Louis Untermeyer from @szul, Robinson Jeffers from @davidbmetcalfe (thanks guys!) and I added a
My best friend Jo asked if I’d like to go to St Jacobs Farmers’ Market with her. I didn’t realize she meant at 6:30 am – before the sun. I made it, more or less. I had a few things to pick up, just a few peppers, maybe seven or eight, to do a vegetarian entrée for
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Each year I participate in CIBC’s Run for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research and prevention. It’s an important charity to me, my paternal Grandmother died of cancer in 2001. She was the most amazing woman and it was heartbreaking to watch. My maternal Grandmother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and is now
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Warning: NSFW Cute video, and I can’t knock book love, but I’d be the girl getting slapped in the I heart Kurt Vonnegut tee. That’s ok, I feel vindicated knowing that Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will be opening in Indianapolis, IN later this year, and that the library already has more than 5200 Facebook fans. Does Ray
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