three-legged stool

Three-Legged Writing Stool

As a teenager I fanticized about what a writing life might be like. I imagined spending my days writing beautiful prose and gazing out the window at the horses I was sure I’d someday have. I have since written thousands of pages of prose. Whether it is beautiful or not is for others to judge. I don’t see horses outside the window, but the colorful birds I see are an adequate diversion from the computer […]

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Write Away in New York City

A question for you to consider: What’s a big dream you’ve had that remains unfulfilled because some aspect of it intimidates you? For many years one dream of mine has been to attend a national writer’s conference. This is the summer I checked that one off the list. I still remember a summer afternoon as a teenager when I was curled up reading and thinking, “I can do this.” The idea that I could write […]

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