Living In Place
It’s All About Audience
A reader recently emailed me asking for writing advice. I complied. “You don’t need a literary background to write. You do need something to say and a desire to learn how to...
Luskin Offers Day-Long Writing Workshop
I’ve retired from teaching countless times, and always find myself drawn back to the classroom, sometimes for the money, sometimes for the professional association,...
Pen for Hire
I participated in a Freelancer’s Roundtable on Wordpress’s Daily Post last week, Beyond Blogging: Freelancing, Getting Paid to Write, and Writing for Free. Of course, I was...
How Do You Know When You’re Done?
I’ve been working Ellen, a novel, for well over two years, and the drafts are now coming thick and fast. I just finished another, one that’s finally finished enough...
Just Say No
Even though I write full time, I still don’t have enough hours in a day. When I worked at other jobs, when my kids were small and when I had even less time to write...
Department of Redundancy Department
Redundancy in writing occurs when a writer says the exact same thing twice and repeats herself. While there are elegant uses of repetition, repetition that clarifies a point,...