by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 1, 2014 | Living in Place
When I wrote about Finding Preliminary Readers back in September, I hadn’t yet asked anyone to read my current work in progress. But that changed in June, when I reached that place where I could no longer see the forest for the trees; I needed new eyes on the page,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 10, 2014 | Living in Place
I initially launched my website as a marketing tool, when Into the Wilderness, my first novel, was published in 2010. The site was incredibly useful during the first year the book was out and I was traveling to bookstores and libraries, giving readings. I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 3, 2014 | Living in Place
Last year, I worked a small garden in small pieces and wrote about how that was a good metaphor for writing a novel – or tackling any long project, for that matter: a little bit at a time. [Six Writing Lessons From the Garden]. Because my garden was so small, I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 20, 2014 | Living in Place
Be Boring. Not in your writing, but in your life. Be Boring. Be Boring is Rule Number 9 out of 10 in Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative by Austin Kleon. And when I read this rule, I sighed with relief, because my day-to-day life is a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | May 6, 2014 | Living in Place
I’m writing this post on May 5, 2014, exactly thirty years since moving to Vermont for the summer. I’m still here, and I’m still writing. When I bought a car and rented a cabin in the late spring of 1984, I’d planned to write both a novel and my dissertation...
