Category Archives: writing

and the winner is

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Erin

Me! Received an e-mail this morning from Moongypsy Press with this lovely graphic in it.

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Common sense strikes back

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Erin

Mom’s always told me I don’t have much common sense. I think she’s wrong. On the other hand, every now and then I have a lapse, and it takes a bit of effort to realize it. For example, over the … Continue reading →

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another week, another submission

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Erin

This past week, I haven’t been working on anything I set up on my goals for the year. Instead, as I often do, I got distracted by the shiny — in this case, Moongypsy Press’s First Anniversary Writing Contest. When … Continue reading →

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Pointing to art

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Erin

Justine Musk has blogged a couple of times about Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin. Based on what she had to say, I checked it out from my library, and I’m glad I did. The book is about choosing to be indispensable … Continue reading →

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Dancing muse

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Erin

Friday night was the holiday party for my husband’s work, which meant actual sociability for me. And since the college he works at has an immersive Chinese theme for the year, they had performances of Chinese music and dance. For … Continue reading →

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All it takes . . .

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Erin

When you start writing (and even if you keep on doing it), you hear “All you absolutely have to do to be a writer is write. Everything else is extra.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Then they start in with, “If … Continue reading →

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A real author

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Erin

Today’s post started sounding like another Poor Pitiful Pearl post (Mom always said that — I think after the doll, though William Steig created the character), so I deleted it and started over, very tongue in cheek. A real author … Continue reading →

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Is it neurotic if I’m partly right?

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Erin

I’ve been worrying about my writing not being good enough. On the one hand, there’s physical proof backing me up on this: I don’t have books on the shelves in a bookstore yet. Not there = not good enough yet. … Continue reading →

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