Jennifer Simpson‘s creative writing project blog, I Write Because includes my piece today. Thank you Jennifer!
Jennifer Simpson‘s creative writing project blog, I Write Because includes my piece today. Thank you Jennifer!
Fellow writers: check out this submission opportunity, offered by Jennifer Simpson of Albuquerque, NM (she’s also in charge of DimeStories):
Regardless of whether or not you opt to take a stab at submitting, try the exercise of a ten-minute write wherein every sentence begins with the phrase, “I write because … ”
It will show you some hitherto unknown parts of yourself…
English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I haven’t posted *all summer* — and it didn’t occur to me until I read this great post by my writer colleague Val Brooks that I realized I should have given y’all a heads-up: “I’m taking a time out to frolic offline in the summer’s sunshine, and then a derecho will leave me without power for the better part of a week and then I’ll be traveling and traveling more and paying bills late and unable to put fingers to keyboard.”
I’ll return to more regular posting within a couple of weeks, but her suggestions are too good to delay passing them on. I particularly like Part III, where she gets down to tangible suggestions, but Parts I & II set the stage.