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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Join the stampede to 2024 writing contests
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Nothing enforces New Year's resolutions like competition. And time crunches. For some incentives to get those writing muscles back in s...
Monday, October 9, 2023
DFWCon Query Gong Show: early morning edition
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Another great DFWCon literary conference in the books, with lots of classes and panels. But probably what readers are awaiting most anxiou...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Book review: when in Rome, kill as the Romans do
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I intended to share -- and will -- more writing tools gleaned from this summer's conferences. Then my newsfeed was overrun by ancient R...
Friday, September 15, 2023
What I learned when it was too hot to blog: part 1
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Just because I didn't post over the summer doesn't mean I was goofing off. When the outside temperatures hovered over 100 degrees F...
Friday, September 8, 2023
Writing contests, classes & conferences: welcome to fall!
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What a summer it's been! I'm back from the hades that is summer in Texas, amazed at how good it felt recently to have days when the...
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