by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 15, 2014 | Living in Place
Since my mother died nearly two years ago, Dad’s been sifting through their belongings. Even though they’d downsized twice before, they’d accumulated lots of stuff during their sixty-six year marriage. What was left were the important pieces: the handcrafted cherry...
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...
