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Writing By Hand: June 2013
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Thursday, June 20, 2013. Many of you know that my daughter is getting married soon (because you have heard about it in letters from me). And soon means Saturday. This Saturday. (gulp) We're ready, though! However, I have talked a lot about doing calligraphy for her wedding, so I thought it was time to show it all off. Then we went shopping for the invitations themselves, and we fell in love with a particular style that just happened to include a spot for custom calligraphy. So I thought, SURE! Another ob...
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Writing By Hand: Restocking the stash
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Saturday, April 11, 2015. Recently I have been sticking my toe. or maybe pen. back into the writing by hand waters. I started slow, with some mail to some long-neglected pen friends, who, although I was not writing to them, were ALWAYS ON MY MIND. OK, well maybe not like that. Anyway, another toe-dipping venture is Postcrossing. It's a BEACH. I love to look at the water. Satellite view of the sound, with the Mississippi barrier islands. A view of the beach/hotels/casinos. April 18, 2015 at 3:48 PM. Follo...
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Writing By Hand: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Incoming and Outgoing Mail. I'm having fun with the Month of Letters so far. Keeping my fingers crossed that I can stay on track with it! Here's what came in the mail yesterday from a penpal that I actually met through LetterMo, Ria, and have kept in touch with over the past year:. And here's today's outgoing mail: a postcard to a LetterMo contact (a new one this year, just basically a postcard swap), and a reply to the above letter. As you can see, I got a little. In case you ...
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BTI Books: January 2013
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I am a writer. In the U.S., many people ask, “What do you do? 8221; as if one’s job defines the person. I learned this when a serious injury forced me to leave a career with the military and suddenly no one quite knew how to introduce me anymore. When you’re a writer, you don’t have to find your passion. It finds you. The hard part is learning your craft sufficiently that other people can share your vision. The Latest on My Work. Finalist 2012 Unpublished Beacon [writing as Beth Treadway].
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BTI Books: March 2011
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I am a writer. In the U.S., many people ask, “What do you do? 8221; as if one’s job defines the person. I learned this when a serious injury forced me to leave a career with the military and suddenly no one quite knew how to introduce me anymore. When you’re a writer, you don’t have to find your passion. It finds you. The hard part is learning your craft sufficiently that other people can share your vision. The Latest on My Work. Finalist 2012 Unpublished Beacon [writing as Beth Treadway]. The President ...
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Holly M. Wendt: halfway to something
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It's mid-November, and for all of the folks diligently plugging away with National Novel Writing Month, that means 25,000 words. Maybe it means having reached that mark and a little bit of triumph or a sense of security against less productive days or weeks. Maybe it means a renewed sense of determination to catch up to that fleet wordcount bird. Whatever it means, NaNo swabbers, sail on. Posted by Holly M. Wendt. Labels: my eternal battle with autumn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Many Blogs I Like.
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Holly M. Wendt: a work in progress
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A work in progress. By the week's end, it will be November. Writers the world around are gathering themselves for National Novel Writing Month. And I, like I've done. 8212;it's about finishing a draft. I'm not worried anymore about not finishing. But, like I've said before, I'm a huge fan of getting high off everyone else's NaNoWriMo fumes, and I'm always in favor of energy turned toward writing. The novel I'm working on now was revolutionized during my time at the American Antiquarian Society. T of rese...
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Holly M. Wendt: I'm not sure it counts as fine craftsmanship, but--
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I'm not sure it counts as fine craftsmanship, but-. After a bit of inspiration yesterday from this article. I decided to break out some of the crafty things I've been saving up. Over the summer, I got turned on to book arts by the inimitable Deborah Poe. And since then I've been gathering up interesting odds and ends with the intention of making some hand-made books. I have, of course, done very little with them. This was the result:. I am generally pleased with this experiment, though, as this will make...
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Holly M. Wendt: magic hat
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This past weekend, we decided to go to a Hershey Bears hockey game (and you can read more about that at The Classical. Sometime next week). During the preceding days, I was on campus, working to get everything necessary for the semester settled. The process for preparing to teach four classes and direct four creative writing portfolio projects entailed three course redesigns and one curriculum revision, which was a lot, but all of it will be helpful in the long-term. I don't usually make things that can.
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Holly M. Wendt: Discovering My First Fountain Pen (Not Where I Expected It)
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Discovering My First Fountain Pen (Not Where I Expected It). Trilogy for my first read through the series) had gotten me a fountain pen—one that used cartridges—for a birthday. It might have been my sixteenth, even, or it was a gift for high school graduation—I’m ashamed to say I don’t remember what the real occasion was. Pen photographed on a bit of Japanese cloth given to me by a coworker. Nib very shiny. It says Parker across the base of the nib. The line it makes is fairly smooth, somewhere around th...
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