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Getting Words on the Page: Writing Routines

Like most things in life, there’s no “one size fits all” solution here. Every writer works differently and has different

Are you a plotter or a pantser? If you plot, do you use post it notes, grocery receipts, notebooks or

We’ve all been there at book club, ready to talk about the story, the characters, the plot… then silence. How

The Yellow Houseby Sarah M. Broom Published: 2019-08-13New York: Grove Press — Currently reading this for @BookNOLA club choice for

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

Virginia Woolf, who placed much emphasis upon dining within her works, famously said that “one cannot think well, love well,

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

Facts, facts, facts; there is nothing but facts. The writer’s first business is to get at these facts exactly —get

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

In the days of Westward Expansion, before the freeways and highways were taking us places quickly, waves of migrants were

Instead of looking down at your phone screen, why not “look up” and see what’s hidden in the flaked paint

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

Ever wonder where ideas come from? Do they come while you’re daydreaming, or standing in the shower? Do you have

Friday Word of the Day elide verb \ i-ˈlīd \ elided; eliding transitive verb 1 a : to suppress or