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Procrastination 11 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
image from www.chalkboardmanifesto.com procrastinate: from Latin, of tomorrow I can be a procrastinator. There. I admit it. I can put things off until…whenever. I can delay. I can come up w...
Playing Make-Believe: World-Building and World-Crafting 29 May 2013 | 09:47 pm
"Writers are atlas makers" Do you remember playing make-believe when you were little? Playing with your friends, or with dolls or stuffed animals, and creating elaborate and often complex scenarios, ...
Hearing and Tasting Our Work 29 Mar 2013 | 07:42 pm
"I always find if you read fiction out loud you know what you have to change by what you stumble over." - Alice Hoffman. As anyone who has worked with me knows, I'm a huge proponent of reading our ma...
What Does Our Backlist Say About Us? 22 Mar 2013 | 06:38 pm
Publishers have backlist – the list of older books still available to the public, as opposed to titles newly published, called frontlist. Building a strong and reputable backlist has traditionally bee...
Are You Being Served? A Recipe for a Great Critique Group 19 Mar 2013 | 12:34 am
Ingredients: - 2-12 dedicated authors (can be of different genres & formats; can be of same genre & format) - heaping doses of imagination - heaping doses of respect - heaping doses of sensitivit...
today marks the 3rd anniversary of drydenbks! 11 Mar 2013 | 07:05 pm
As hard as it is to believe three years have gone by since I put out my shingle, it’s entirely gratifying to be so busy and fulfilled by the work I love—by work that seems to be filling a need in the ...
When Our Storm Comes 1 Jan 2013 | 11:54 pm
This poem sits over my desk; I see it everyday. But I don't always read it. Today, New Year's Day, I read it anew, with fresh eyes--and promise myself to pay attention, to pay heed, to witness, to be...
believing in magic 24 Dec 2012 | 02:27 am
the breadth and delicate majesty of nature is magic the writing and telling of stories is magic the creating of art is magic the giving and receiving of love is magic this time of renewal and looking...
Lighting the Dark Corners 16 Dec 2012 | 01:40 am
"And the world will still be imperfect, because men are imperfect. Good men will still be killed by bad, or sometimes by other good men, and there will still be pain and disease and famine, anger and ...
Bending in the Winds of Change 21 Nov 2012 | 09:02 pm
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind.But the oak stood firm and was torn up by...
