I discovered a long time ago that the best way to learn something is to actually teach it.  At times I feel compelled to write about writing and the writing life in the hope that it may make someone's journey a bit easier.  Below are some of my musings.

     Catch A Judge's Eye
     Chautauqua Musings
     Dialogue: It's Not Just Talk
     Query Letters: A Personal Journey
     The Unfinished Quilt -- the story of my first acceptance
     Stretching and Winning
     A Tense Situation
     Barbara Seuling's Manuscript Workshop
     Write Letters for Fun and Writing Fitness

Work Habits:  I started out writing at the kitchen counter while my babies played happily on the floor and supper was simmering on the stove.  For ten or fifteen minutes.  Sometimes for twenty.  Now I write for two luxurious hours during the day while my children are at school.  It's taken me six years to get to this stage.  A reminder: You have to carve writing time into your busy day. 

     Write every day, even if it's just for fifteen minutes. 
     Take writing courses; learn the craft.
     Join or form a critique group.
     Make a commitment.
     Read good books.
     Persevere.

These are some of my favorite quotes.  I hope they inspire you to write in the face of rejection, when the words don't flow and when you simply need inspiration to keep going.

     Discipline is freedom.  Garth Fagan
     Work is love made visible.  Khalil Gibran
     Chance favors the prepared mind.  Louis Pasteur
     Write for pleasure and publish for money.  Pushkin
     You develop a style from writing a lot.  Kurt Vonnegut
     Writing is always a voyage of discovery.  Nadine Gordimer
     Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.  Allen Ginsberg
     If you are skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.  Jesse Winchester
     A writer's heart must beat.  A reader's heart must hear it.  Patti Lee Gauch.
     Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
     T.S. Eliot
     The role of the writer is not to say what all can say but what we are unable
     to say.  Anais Nin
     What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
     what lies within us.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
     Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
     success when they gave up.  Thomas Alva Edison
 

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