Category: Writing
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Word of the Year 2024
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024. There’s nothing more joyous to me than the idea of putting the past year to bed and allowing yourself a fresh start. Cleaning off the slate to have space to begin anew. But it’s equally worthwhile to review the past year before you move forward. I start with contemplating…
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Get Your NaNo Groove Back
Never try to do NaNoWriMo and plan a curling bonspiel for kids at the same time. I’ve dropped out of trying to hit my goal of 50K words in 30 days, which is a weird goal anyway when you’re in rewriting mode. You add 1000 words and then delete 1000 words all on the same…
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My Little Cabin (Hotel Room) in the Woods
Last week I was in Canada hosting my own little solo writing retreat. I didn’t go to Canada only for that. The kiddos went to curling skills camp in Ontario. And then instead of driving 8 or 9 hours back to Maryland and then making this return journey 5 days later, I decided to carpe…
Mindy Carlson 