by Deborah Lee Luskin | Mar 6, 2012 | Living in Place
The essay I intended for today’s post was about the fine line between solitude and loneliness – a boundary I often have difficulty negotiating. I wrote about eight hundred words, and it was good – but it wasn’t good enough. And even though I could post it, I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 21, 2012 | Living in Place
Starting a new book is like learning to drive manual transmission: it’s all about getting into first gear. And even though a writer may have cruised along in fifth to the end of any number of novels before, each new one is like learning to drive all over again. I’ve...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 7, 2012 | Living in Place
Writers write. Then we submit and wait – and worry. We wonder what’s wrong that editors take so long to decide our fate. This waiting reminds me of when I was single, living in New York City, wondering how I was ever going to marry if I couldn’t even get a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 24, 2012 | Living in Place
Several readers have asked for the title of the book I’m using for my poetry exercises. Poetry Writing: Theme and Variation by David Starkey was published in 1999. While it’s still available in paperback, it costs $25. I’m using it because a...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 24, 2012 | Living in Place
I’m a prose-writer. I write essays and novels and the occasional short story. I have strong prose muscles, muscles that allow me to think in sentences that are often long and complex, sentences that use repetition and subordination, sentences that mimic the thoughts...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jan 10, 2012 | Living in Place
Ten days into the new year and I’ve already broken the resolutions I didn’t make, missing a day of exercise, eating a dessert I’d sworn off, and skipping a day at my desk. Back in the years when I made resolutions, these deviations from perfection would send me into a...
