Category: Writing
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Getting the Most From Your Writing Conference
As I noted in my newsletter, the focus of this month’s blog post is about attending writing conferences. Your usual writing conference includes panels, author signings, special guest interviews, cocktail parties, reading gatherings, and an awards ceremony with (sometimes) banquet. Some, like Malice Domestic, also include a lovely knitting circle led by the wonderful Ellen…
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Walking Down the Path
As I mentioned last month, we’re all living that fairy tale life. As authors, we’re writing about life, but in encapsulated vignettes that feature our struggles and dark times before we grow and find resolution. We’re basically writing fairy tales. We’re writing about our time in one section of forest before we come back out…
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A Fairy Tale Life
“Why can’t my life be a fairy tale?” It’s the refrain of every heroine in every romance novel and movie. Or—why limit ourselves?—it’s in every novel on the shelf and movie streaming through the interwebs. What they mean is, “I want to skip to the Happily Ever After.” They want to wake up/have their life…
Mindy Carlson 