March 2010

Wednesday Writer’s Workshop: Timed writing exercise

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?

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?

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

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

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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