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I'm a writer and editor (and wife and mother) sharing my love of learning, teaching, reading, and writing.

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Writer versus …

There you sit, my writer duckling, staring at your blank screen, the cursor mocking you as it blinks slowly in the upper left corner waiting for you to type your first brilliant sentence. Waiting. Blinking. Waiting. Blinking.

Gah. Ideas. Who’s got a brilliant idea anyway? Better to flip over to Facebook or make a nice hot cup . . . → Read More: Writer versus …

Get out!

As writers, we tend to be loners. As loners, we can tend to lose sight of what’s going on around us. When we lost sight of what’s going on around us, we tend to write what we know right now. If we don’t get out and see the world, we tend to write dated material. And . . . → Read More: Get out!