This is going to be an unusually personal post – I went to AWP (the massive, twelve-thousand writers in a single event space dance-with-your-editor party that the Association of Writers and Writing Professionals puts on annually in various cities). First let me say that it was….amazing. There were thirty panels for every time slot – […]
[ Read More...]Want help? Give it. Part 1.
Authors in grad school often make pacts like the ones in dweeby marriage movies “whichever of us gets published first will pull the other up by our coattails” (okay marriage movies have them swearing they’ll marry each other, but just go with the bloggish half-metaphor….) – point is, once one of the pair gets their […]
[ Read More...]Can you transition well?
Transitions. I can’t do them. How the heck do successful writers who are parents manage to transition from working on their novel to being the person who has to pick up the kid at school on time? Here’s the scenario: I’m hard at work on a section that has been impossible, a scene in which […]
[ Read More...]Writing as a Parent
So I’m often asked whether Pen Parentis is for people who write about parenting. Our mission is quite the opposite: we want to encourage writers to continue on the creative track they were on before they had kids. That said, parents need to build college funds – or just pay rent! – and in a […]
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