by Elizabeth | Dec 31, 2012 | Featured
I know that it’s a time of year when everyone is making lots of resolutions. Most people only do this once a year, if that. Can that be enough? Do you remember last year’s resolutions? Each week in the Book Writing World, we begin by posting our goals for...
by Elizabeth | Dec 25, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
1) Try to keep things a secret. This is not something we are great at in our family, though we are getting better. We always want to let someone know as soon as we’ve gotten—or even thought of—the perfect present. Leo and Charlie are making secrets gifts in class...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 24, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
In graduate school, I was fortunate to be a student of the late great Lucille Clifton. Not only was she an outstanding poet, but she was an exemplary teacher. And she used her wit and sense of humor to convey so many layers of meaning in her often short poems. She...
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 21, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Recently, in our wonderful Mentoring Class, Elizabeth Stark posed some interesting questions to us, about why we think we write and what our mission is. My wonderful colleagues at the Book Writing World generously shared their answers and allowing me to publish them....
by Devi S. Laskar | Dec 20, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
I’m not new to the computer, and I’m not new to moving files from one “place” on the computer to the other. I’ve been working on a computer and moving things for years, even decades. Yet accidents happen. I accidentally erased a lot of my work recently, as I moved it...
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