March 2010

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Timed writing exercise

03.31.2010

So–I promised a prompt or two.  Instead, I’m just going to give you one, but it’s a doozy.  It’s a song, the first track on Christine Kane’s CD of the same name.  Listen to it. Go where it takes you.  Any part of it.  Then, if you’re so inclined, copy what you’ve written into a [...]

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How Young Is Too Young to be Giving Us Advice?

03.29.2010

So how, I ask, (and yes, with a bitchy whine), have these young pups earned the right to be “expert” at anything? No, I don’t have my head in the sand. I know young hot actors, models and entertainers dominate the media. But now they get to be the experts too?

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: What are you worth as a writer–and to whom?

03.24.2010

All the world isn’t a stage; it’s a marketplace. All the people aren’t merely players; they are, alternately, sellers and buyers. I don’t apologize to Shakespeare for that because I am simply updating him. He didn’t have social media and the world wide web to factor into his human intercourse equation. We do and, frankly, [...]

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The Rest of Our Life is Looking A Lot Longer Now

03.22.2010

Remember my  post a couple of years back about our age versus developmental stage?  Sunday’s New York Times had an article that cut right to the heart of it.  We’re living a hell of a lot longer.  Retirement is not an option, for some because of finances and for others, just because.  So what do [...]

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Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Blogging 101

03.17.2010

When I first started blogging back in The Day–’04 that would have been–no one in my circle of friends and family knew what a blog was.  Or cared, for that matter.  I was kind of embarrassed to admit I was a blogger when people asked what I wrote. It felt somehow illegitimate, like I was [...]

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Spring Cleaning

03.15.2010

…the spider’s lair—a scary place. It’s where the wild things are! A quick inventory of the small room reveals stacked boxes from my original move, photo albums, luggage, books, rolls of wrapping paper, framed artwork, and who knows what else.

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Online dating: Stories from the Front Lines

03.12.2010

Bud asked if I liked spanking. Mike’s first email was an erotic story. The artist guy took me out to brunch then turned out to be penniless.

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: Building a better writer with timed-freewriting

03.10.2010

Do you ever do timed free-writing?  Do you ever just set a timer for ten or fifteen or thirty minutes and write about anything and everything till the bell rings?   You’re not writing about anything.  You’re just making words on a page or screen, one after the other, whether they make sense or not. [...]

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Watching My Waist

03.08.2010

Then came the earthquakes. A divorce, single motherhood, a bankruptcy. Bing, Bang. Boom. Even though I was an emotional wreck, I never ballooned to outrageous proportions. Still, for the first time in my life I had to shimmy into a girdle to control the overflow of tummy flesh. I was mortified.

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Wednesday Writers Workshop: The Writer’s Bookshelf

03.03.2010

There was a time when I bought books about writing with a hunger and a purpose.  I just knew that one of them, or maybe two or three, held the secrets to the universe of Being A Writer.  You know about that universe:  the one where fully-realized sentences seems to transfer from your unconscious to [...]

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