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I’m in the home stretch in completing my book on Home Canning and Preserving Foods, and as soon as I’m done, I’m gettin out of town. But I’m at the Appendix writing recipes for jellies, soups, beef jerky, and smoked ham, and every hour or two I end up wandering downstairs looking for something to [...]

Remember that AWP writer’s conference last week? Well I’m back and inspired and unstoppable. Full details later, but first I wanted to tell you about other writers.
Wow.
I usually hang with technical writers, B2B writers, some down-to-earth English profs, and my fairly normal blogging friends. I have encountered snobs but not intellectual snobbery. I did [...]

I’m off to the AWP writer’s conference, a place I wasn’t sure I’d ever be. How did I get here? Here’s a post from my past that talks about the journey.
Sometimes we’re blessed with the opportunity to step back and see the pattern and progress of our lives, and we’re better for having that experience. [...]

Oh my, oh my. Just after I told THE WHOLE BLOGGING WORLD (OK, the 3 people who read this blog and the 2 people I know on LinkedIn) that I was going to try to show my novel to someone at the AWP conference, I actually read the first 2 chapters for the first time [...]

…drive to my house and give me a pep talk about the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Chicago conference. The one I’m attending next week. You will massage my shoulders while I lovingly print out chapters of my novel and a couple of short stories to show to anyone who’s interested.
Then, if you truly [...]