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Writer’s Life

New Year’s Resolutions for a Creative Mom

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I like to think of New Year’s Resolutions as more like a plan than a list of solid goals.  The goal is, as always, to be the best mom, wife and artist I can be.  I figure if i get around to most of these, I’ll be okay this year. TEN:  Quality reading for you [...]

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Why-Not of the Week: Write a Novel with Thousands of People!

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November is National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo for short). You, along with tons of other enthusiastic and over-caffeinated amateur novelists will be challenged to write a 50k novel in one month.  This means that there is no room for editing, rereading or dilly dallying. You have to kick your internal editor out of your head [...]

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Writing a Better Goodnight Moon

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Ah, bedtime. It’s dark outside.  Everyone is fed and clean and (hopefully) winding down at the end of the day.  Our little one is snuggled up in her bed ready for her story.  Its almost time for Mommy to have a little time for herself.  If only I didn’t have to read an odd little [...]

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Learning to Paint Novels

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Before I sat down to write this article I looked up “writing for artists” on Amazon.  My search came back with dozens of books on basic grammar, technical writing and sentence structure for us language impaired visual artists.  This was disappointing.  I wanted to find references on learning styles and creativity that focused on cross [...]

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Travels With Ernest – The Adventures of a Nomadic Navy Wife

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In the spring of 2006 my husband left for a deployment.  It wasn’t our first, and it certainly will not be our last, but it was his final deployment before we became parents.  I was able to take advantage of the flexibility of our before-kids lifestyle, and, among other things, I became a nomad, tried [...]

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