Monthly Archives: April, 2008
Poetry Mixtapes
In an lovely coincidence, the most recent issue of Poets & Writers features a piece on how to arrange poems in a manuscript by Katrina Vandenberg that compares the process to making the perfect mix-tape, complete with Nick Hornby references and a downloadable playlist. Of course, as a poet who loves and mourns the dying …
Friends in High Places
I think I’ve written here before about the writing group I belong to, which is a group of women, all with children, all writers in different genres. The group is actually an email list, and today we had a little explosion of messages flying back and forth after a period of dormancy I value these …
Goals
At the beginning of this year, I made a list of writing goals, a practice I highly recommend. One was to break into new markets, especially target markets, another was to commit myself to further study of poetry, and a third was to engage more with the literary community in Baltimore. Finally, I wanted to …
Writing Comedy
I have a few blogs I need to add to the blogroll, and one is Susan Ito’s ReadingWritingLiving. I bring it up today especially because I’m giving her credit for this hilarious link from McSweeney’s: Thirteen Writing Prompts that will comedy gold for anyone who’s ever been in a creative writing class or workshop. Susan …
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