by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 19, 2017 | Living in Place
In a letter to her sister Cassandra dated January 25, 1801, when Jane Austen was twenty-six years old, she describes holding one Mr. Holder at bay. “Your unfortunate sister was betrayed last Thursday into a situation of the utmost cruelty. I arrived at Ashe Park...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 10, 2017 | Living in Place
I no longer remember which of my colleagues at Live to Write – Write to Live first advised me to reply to readers’ comments, but it’s been great advice, so I’m passing it on. Here’s why: It’s easy to send stories out into the world; it’s harder to know if they ever...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 9, 2017 | Living in Place
Last Friday, I had a visit from a reader who’d been commenting on my posts for several months. I always try to reply to readers’ comments. So Judith and I were soon engaged in what passes for a twenty-first-century epistolary correspondence via cyberspace. Not bad for...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 3, 2017 | Living in Place
I’d been working full-time revising a novel from August twentieth until September twenty-first. Those were four glorious weeks of concentrated work, during which I never had to wonder, What am I going to write today? I worked on the revision morning and afternoon,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 29, 2017 | Living in Place
Last Friday, I boarded Amtrak’s Vermonter and headed to Penn Station. It was a great way for a slow-living homebody to travel. The train isn’t the fastest way to get to New York City, and it’s certainly not the least expensive, but it’s so much nicer than the...
