A writer’s ideas: not scarce, but fleeting
Last week I quoted Virginia Woolf’s statement about women writers. I did so with only the most cursory of Google look-ups to get the quote correct, and I confess I had not read the entire essay from which the quotation was taken. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and I did finally go [...]
A room… er, desk… of one’s own
Virginia Woolf once noted, “…a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is going to write.”
Well this weekend, while I couldn’t really justify taking an entire room, I did the next best thing: I cleared the end of my bedroom where all the clutter gets stored and made room for [...]
Becoming the writer I want to be
Remember my post from the other day about the Writer’s Market reference book? And then the one about wanting to visit my childhood house because I might be unhappy with the present?
Well, further reflection on those recent bits of self-reflection have led me to a pretty important realization: I am a writer, but I’m not [...]
Writer’s Market: a writer’s wish-book
We were at breakfast today at Porky’s, and our favorite waitress, Kristin, told us she is a writer. I was delighted - she has such enthusiasm for her own work, none of that “I like to write but I’m not very good.” So I was telling her about a reference book for writers called “Writer’s [...]
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