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Writing Home: April 2015
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Saturday, April 11, 2015. If only there was a Goodreads. For watching TV. If so, I would be a top viewer. I watched a lot of television in the 11 months I went through cancer treatments. Not just a wimpy sitcom here and there, but dramas that required a certain type of allegiance to plow through them. Every episode of every season, sometimes one, two, even three a day. Call the Midwife [0]. The Duchess of Duke Street. Maybe I'll...
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Writing Home: The writer, reading (listening)
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Sunday, November 15, 2009. The writer, reading (listening). The thing about listening to books on tape instead of reading them is that, in my mind, the voice of the narrator often becomes the voice of the actor performing the book. When I think of the Little House books I now hear the raspy, slightly twangy voice of Cherry Jones. Posted by Beth Blevins. Very nice. The best childrens books are great books. The Smiley Book Club.
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Writing Home: Silent Summer
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Friday, September 19, 2014. Oh the things I planned to write this summer. I cut my workload in May and had several weeks where I had no obligations to anyone. Finally, my work would take precedence. And then (the day after one of my work contracts ended, in fact) I found a tiny lump in my breast. This is supposed to be a blog about creativity, but I don't feel very creative right now. I wanted some kind of ending for this post, ...
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Writing Home: Tap shoe optimism
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Sunday, November 16, 2014. A row of tap shoes has made me hopeful about public education- specifically, a row of tap shoes outside a hallway, waiting for young dancers to put on just before their performances. The shoes are used multiple times per show, and many times a day per class, at the (free) public school arts magnet that my daughter attends. I think it's the pride they take in performing and seeing their peers perform...
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Writing Home: 56 drafts and three little kisses
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Tuesday, October 26, 2010. 56 drafts and three little kisses. After I wrote my post about Mary Amato's talk on revisions. In which she confessed that her last novel went through 56 drafts, I kept wondering—how did she keep track of it all? Did she have 56 different computer files, 56 print-outs, or 56 of something else? So, I emailed her and asked. Here is what she said:. Ow do you know where you left off? Posted by Beth Blevins.
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Writing Home: November 2014
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Sunday, November 16, 2014. A row of tap shoes has made me hopeful about public education- specifically, a row of tap shoes outside a hallway, waiting for young dancers to put on just before their performances. The shoes are used multiple times per show, and many times a day per class, at the (free) public school arts magnet that my daughter attends. I think it's the pride they take in performing and seeing their peers perform...
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Writing Home: Using the watermark feature in MS Word to distinguish your drafts
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Friday, April 3, 2015. Using the watermark feature in MS Word to distinguish your drafts. Maybe most writers already know this, but I stumbled upon something accidentally tonight that is going to help me more easily distinguish which draft of a manuscript I am looking at. For advice on how to find where the latest edits go to, and how to name your drafts, revisit Mary Amato's advice in a 2010 Writing Home post: 56 drafts and thr...
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Writing Home: March 2015
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Monday, March 23, 2015. Part One of 1,000- an ongoing discussion). In my last post ( In the absence of leisure, where is art? I reinforced the conceit that people who are "cultured" (i.e., read books) go to college. But is college really necessary? Yet how could I deny him the experience that I still maintain (marketability be damned! Is college necessary for other people? Posted by Beth Blevins. Links to this post. Perhaps work...
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Writing Home: In the absence of leisure, where is art?
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Thursday, March 19, 2015. In the absence of leisure, where is art? In the second installment of its series on the shrinking middle class ( The Devalued American Worker. December 15, 2014), the Washington Post. Tells the story of Ed Green of Winston-Salem, NC, who works more than 12 hours a day, 60 hours a week, to make ends meet and so that his kids might go to college. Why do I care? Posted by Beth Blevins. This blog has evolve...
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Writing Home: Too much TV
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Aren't all writers writing home—and trying to find a home for their writing? Saturday, April 11, 2015. If only there was a Goodreads. For watching TV. If so, I would be a top viewer. I watched a lot of television in the 11 months I went through cancer treatments. Not just a wimpy sitcom here and there, but dramas that required a certain type of allegiance to plow through them. Every episode of every season, sometimes one, two, even three a day. Call the Midwife [0]. The Duchess of Duke Street. Maybe I'll...
