by Deborah Lee Luskin | Oct 14, 2014 | Living in Place
Several years ago I followed the exercises in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Well, I followed some of them; I wrote my morning pages without fail. But I confess: I didn’t do the collages, and even though I went so far as to schedule regular Artist Dates,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 30, 2014 | Living in Place
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog of my own for some time. Now that the current draft of Ellen is on my agent’s desk for review, I’m finally ready to turn my attention to this task. I have two goals for a blog. The first is to write about place, a concept that...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Sep 16, 2014 | Living in Place
As promised in A Sentence is a Complete Thought, today’s post is devoted to Parallel Structure. Parallel structure aids coherence by balancing nouns with nouns, prepositional phrases with prepositional phrases, and main clauses with main clauses. It might help to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 26, 2014 | Living in Place
A sentence is a complete thought, containing both subject and verb. The subject is what the sentence is about, and the verb is what the subject is doing.Here’s an example of a sentence: I write.“I” is the subject, and “write” is what I do.Simple as that. (“Simple as...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 12, 2014 | Living in Place
As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, “It’s easy to get published – and hard to get read.” I was reminded of this at Bookstock, where I met many self-published authors selling their books. Selling books at a literary festival makes sense but not cents, according to...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 29, 2014 | Living in Place
On Saturday, Wendy E. N. Thomas, Lisa J. Jackson and I appeared at the Bookstock Literary Festival to talk about writing this collaborative blog. Wendy kicked the panel discussion off with the story of how the blog started, back in 2010. Live to Write – Write to Live...
