Living In Place
What Do You Do?
When you meet someone for the first time, how do you reply to their inevitable question, “What do you do?” When I held my first jobs, I was always excited to reply...
Fencing Off Your Writing
Of all the graduation speeches I've ever heard, the most meaningful one was at the ceremony for a friend who had just become a rabbi. The speaker exhorted these new clerics "to...
How Losing Weight and Writing a Novel are Similar
Last May I was overweight and hypertensive, and I was unhappy about needing medication for a preventable cardiac risk. As serendipity would have it, I met a...
Preparing to Publish: Turning a Typescript into a Book
If “impatience is the bane of self publishing,” then well-crafted writing, careful editing and artful book design are its salvation. In this post, I outline the steps that...
It’s easy to get published . . .
It’s easy to get published, but hard to be read. Advances in technology have made it possible for anyone with access to the internet to self-publish. Unfortunately,...
Empowering Submission – guest post by Naomi Shafer
Regular Live to Write - Write to Live blogger Deborah Lee Luskin recently posted Raising a Writer. Here's a post by that young writer, who by changing the language, offers a new...