It is amazing to me to get to hear the stories of writers who are parents from far-flung places. I am so grateful to our members who have volunteered to add their voices to this blog! These last two weeks, thinking about how the daily routine of guest blogger and Pen Parentis member Geoff Kirsch up […]
[ Read More...]Music to guide us
In our world, we multitask. Facebook and other social media send us alerts during the workday; and often we have a peek at the message. The phone rings (or buzzes, or plays a melody, or quacks, or honks) while we are talking to a friend and we check to see who is calling. As parents, […]
[ Read More...]Emotional Garbage Truck
Okay, so here’s what last week’s crazy parenting moment reminded me of: I was writing a novel while I worked (at my fancypants corporate job I was required to look busy but there was often no work to be done) and one day found myself in an all-out war with a secretary over the office […]
[ Read More...]New page in Salon history
A lot of you who follow this blog, I count as my friends – and as such, I want to take a little break from trying to inspire all writers who are parents and just sit back with a cup of coffee and thank you for everything you’ve ever done for me. You know who […]
[ Read More...]Want help? Give it. Part 2.
Face it, there’s a reason you’re not getting an agent: it’s not because your writing sucks. If your writing sucked, you wouldn’t be getting encouraging emails from agents saying they are sure it will find a market at some point. You would be getting only standard boring-as-hell, form-rejection letters that probably don’t have your name […]
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