[Update: See the post 37 Favorite Books on Writing for a list that includes recommendations from readers’ comments.] I am following with excitement writer Michelle Johnson’s journey toward opening a book store! Yesterday, she posted this announcement: “I just came back from the City of Virginia Beach offices yesterday, armed with my new business license. …
I miss my writing buddy. Katie and I usually get together every month at a donut shop called Cranky Al’s. We share excerpts from what we are working on, talk about our plans for the future (near and far), and, most importantly, support each other unconditionally and non-competitively in ways that continue to surprise me. …
Whenever I get an email notice of a new post on the blog “The Sophia Project,” written by Cyndi Briggs, I feel myself jump inside, kind of like when my grandpa would pull some candy from his pocket, or the Bookmobile arrived at our country school once a week. Today I got a Cyndi fix, …
What’s it like to have an agent? I’ve been asked that a few times recently, perhaps because after having written for several years, I now, for the first time, am represented by a literary agent for my children’s historical novel, Planting Words: My Friend Oscar Micheaux. It’s not at all what I expected, in the …
Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice. She dreams a little… Complacency: 1. The fact or state of being pleased with a thing or …