by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 11, 2012 | Living in Place
My middle child is a playwright. If I were a responsible parent, I’d probably discourage her from pursuing a career in the arts, unless she were to go into arts management, where she could be regularly underpaid instead of intermittently so. Because face...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 27, 2012 | Living in Place
It’s November twenty-seventh, meaning including today there are just four more days to finish the NaNoWriMo challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel in one short month. As of this morning, I’m at 42,452, so it’s nip-and-tuck whether I’ll cross the finish...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Nov 13, 2012 | Living in Place
Rather than wait until New Year’s Eve, when it’s too late to do anything about the year’s unmet goals, I took stock at the end of October. Despite grand ideas of writing a poem a week this year, I haven’t. In fact, I forgot about that resolution until I reviewed my...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 30, 2012 | Living in Place
Regular Live to Write – Write to Live blogger Deborah Lee Luskin wrote Most Improved Writing Student earlier this month. . Here’s a guest post by that student, Daniel Chamovitz, author of What A Plant Knows . . I don’t consider myself an author; I am a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 16, 2012 | Living in Place
My mother died last month. Her death was long anticipated and when it finally came, something of a relief. But losing a parent is one of life’s great transitions, moving the next generation closer to the front line of death. As expected as my mom’s death was, it also...
