Dysfunctional Fetching and an Anniversary
It's been two years since Stable Relation launched with all the Fourth of July fireworks I could imagine. It was the...
Composing a Writer #12. What True Self-Publishing Means
I've lost count of the times I've been told I was destroying my life. It started in high school where...
Composing a Writer #11. Submission and Rejection
I'm not proud of what I did. In my defense, I was in my early twenties; old enough to know...
Composing a Writer #10. A Manuscript is Not a Book
Let's say pigs fly. You've written the thing you always wanted to write. It's a miracle. It's been in your mind...
Composing a Writer #9. Beta Readers, Secrets, and Dead Darlings
Most families have an odd relative. It's an uncle with hairy ears who drinks too much on holidays or a cousin who converted to a...
Composing a Writer #8. Editing the Editing
I was raised by a woman who chronically rearranged furniture. It was a nervous habit. Coming home late you had...
Composing a Writer #7. Criticism Wanted
I was fifty-nine years old and someone had scribbled "Why should I care?" in thick red ink on my hard-fought...
Composing a Writer #6. Writing for Readers
It's a moment of exquisite anxiety. The kind of anxiety that's prickly and blunt at the same time, and you...
Composing a Writer #5. Write Long, Write Short
As soon as I escaped, I started writing poems. I was barely eighteen and living four states away from my...
Composing a Writer #4. Why Words Matter
She's been my friend for decades. That was me at her daughter's birthday party, singing and tap dancing in...
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