by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 19, 2013 | Living in Place
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 with my newly acquired title. “I’m an editorial assistant,” I said, straight out of college....
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 5, 2013 | Living in Place
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 build a fence around their Torah.” He told them that even as they...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 19, 2013 | Living in Place
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 nutritionist while on a writing assignment for an outdoor magazine, and she recommended the book,...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 5, 2013 | Living in Place
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 transform a piece of writing into a publication. These are the steps required regardless of how...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 22, 2013 | Living in Place
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, finding readers is not as easy – especially for those writers who do not have a specific...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 8, 2013 | Living in Place
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 way to think about sending work out. **************************************...
