By Judy Clement Wall I’m a huge fan of bentlily. If you haven’t visited her site, you should. Her real name is Samantha. She’s a writer and new mom who, instead of making resolutions for 2011, committed to writing a poem every day. Here’s what she wrote about her decision: I pledged to write one…
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j’s Journey: Rejection Like Snow
By Judy Clement Wall As soon as Milli and I decided to expand the j’s Journey series to include all aspects of writing for publication, I knew that, at some point, I’d be writing about rejection. There may be writers out there submitting their work who never feel the sting of an editor’s “Thank you…
The Great Writer’s Block Debate
By Judy Clement Wall On the question of writers’ block, there are definitely two camps. There are those who have lived the agony of it, and those that say it simply doesn’t exist. I could write pages and pages about how terrible it is, how I think it’s not so much a block (which would…
10K Day: Live, While It’s Happening! – August 22
Note for new arrivals: The 10K Day starts on the morning of Saturday, August 22. Your exact starting time is up to you. WELCOME TO ALL those plucky writers who are participating today! This is the place to post your check-ins. To learn more about this event, check the special 10K Day section (see blog…
Writer’s Block? Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge
By Milli Thornton THREE DAYS BEFORE Christmas, 2003, I was sitting in Wired! coffee house with Theresa and Daniel, two members of the Taos, New Mexico Fertile Material Writing Circle. We were in the throes of what we always do in these writing circles, which is to pick a writing prompt from my book, write…
