How to Write About Your Kids without Being Awful
:: You can choose to write nothing about your kids, which is a fine choice, or you can write about your kids with utter kindness, respect, and gratitude. And even then, you must be careful. I have a deadline looming for my monthly column about motherhood, and I hit a...
Where The Terror Lies
:: But to say there is no sustained time to work because my kids are at home is to leave off half of the problem. The other half is out there, in the unidentified place where the terror lies. *** It’s odd, the way public writing about “productivity”...
Publishing Co-ops and Collectives: A Love Story
:: In an author co-op, identifying strengths and delegating jobs is mission critical. It is arguably the entire point of an author co-op. It is where the magic happens. Updated April 2021 There’s a lot of mystery to publishing, and as I’ve written before,...
Public Writing Life: A Column in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
:: A column that tackles the issues that you face when writing for the public. This new column tackles the issues that higher ed workers (and many others) face when they want to try writing for the public: in magazines, on social media, and more. How do you get...
On Publishing, Money, and Rhetorical Devices
:: A few thoughts about what it means to work as a writer and in publishing, and to speak out as a woman, and to come from a family that has some money or a family with none, and to have good intentions and to fail to communicate those intentions, and the consequences...01. About Me
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