Jun25
This June has been a struggle for me. I’m reminded of my school days, where I’d sit in math class, gazing out at the trees and blue sky outside the window, lost in my thoughts — thoughts that had nothing to do with the Pythagorean theorem up on the blackboard. This week I’ve been distracted by the Entwistle murder trial here in Boston, which just, thank God, wrapped up a little over an hour ago. I’m bored with the work on my plate, I don’t have any focus, and I just feel like grabbing a stack of mystery novels and a pitcher of iced tea and hanging out on the hammock for the rest of the summer.
I do have a scheduled vacation in August, so hammock time has to wait. (Besides, I’ll be in Houson. In August. I’ll be searching for air conditioning.) So I put this out there you folks. How do *you* beat summer ennui? [db]
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Jun25
We hadn’t planned on running our Renegade Writer e-courses during these long, hot, hazy days of summer, but due to popular demand, Alison Stein Wellner is running her 6-week travel writing workshop starting Monday, July 14, 2008 — great for those of you who want to make a profit off your summer travel. Sign up […]
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Jun23
Last week Linda and I conducted a telephone mentoring session with the writer who’d won the drawing for the free half-hour of mentoring for signing up for our Renegade Writer e-courses. Both of us were impressed with this part-time writer’s magazine credits. We’re talking top-of-the-heap consumer publications that have a certain cachet.
One thing that struck […]
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Jun18
I’m not a travel writer by any stretch of the imagination, although I have written travel articles. However, I do regularly fantasize about all-expenses-paid trips to places like Dubai and Estonia … hey, I’m just not a Paris kind of girl. This post by travel writer Lara Dunston screwed my head on straight. No way […]
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Jun14
Here’s a note from HCI, publishers of the Chicken Soup series and the Ultimate series:
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This is just a quick reminder of deadlines coming up for submissions from writers and photographers for the Ultimate series from HCI Books.
We’re looking for “slice-of-life” stories and photos that are inspirational, motivational, humorous or thought-provoking. Here’s what’s looming, please don’t […]
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