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Brittany: This Writer’s Life, Straight Out of a Horror Flick

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , on March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »

You already know about my thing for vampires. But lately, I’ve been feeling more like Dr. Frankenstein.
You know that scene where the doctor’s monster comes to life and he says, “It’s alive!!!”? Well, that’s me.
I’ve created a monster, too.
I want to go on record again as saying that I had no intention whatsoever of starting another novel. I [...]

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Bethany: Bad Habits Are Hard to Break

Posted in Bethany, tagged , on February 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’d always wanted to be a writer. In my youth it was songs and poetry. Mostly because they were short, sweet, and easy to produce in the short allotment of time that my brain could focus. Being a nervous child, I was always full of anxiety, never sat still, and always had plans. Mornings would [...]

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Miranda: My new laptop doesn’t have a power cord — or then again, maybe it does

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , , on February 10, 2010 | 22 Comments »

This weekend, instead of using my “off” morning time to work on my novel, I decided to immerse myself in a half-day motherhood retreat. Not a retreat from motherhood, but a retreat to motherhood. Better motherhood.
For some time — years — I’ve been moving closer to fitting all the pieces together. This process has been [...]

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Brittany: Unkeeping a Journal

Posted in Brittany, tagged , on January 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »

Crossposted from my personal blog.
I’m the sort of writer whose ideas are in a constant state of percolation. I’ll be driving my mini-van, listening to the Wiggles, answering a constant stream of “whys” from the backseat, and all of a sudden a snippet of conversation will pop into my head, where it will sit until [...]

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Brittany: What Did You Do Today?

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , on January 22, 2010 | 14 Comments »

Crossposted from my personal blog.
“What did you do today?” It’s never a good idea to ask this of a stay-at-home mom and expect to be told anything exciting as a result.
One of my single (and childless) friends asked me this very question today, and I was embarrassed to admit that so far, my morning had [...]

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Ellie: One Crafty Mother

Posted in Ellie, tagged , , , on January 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’m Ellie, mother to two kids aged 7 and 4. I’m a jewelry designer, blogger and I love writing. I sell my jewelry on Etsy, which has worked well for me. When I’m not chasing my kids around, making jewelry, or writing, I love to read. I have been designing and selling jewelry [...]

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Brittany: Bitten By the Muse

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , on January 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »

(parts cross-posted from my personal blog)
Okay, I admit it. Sometimes I can be a real literary snob. But after obtaining a BA and an MA in English, which required me to read approximately 500 works of English literature in 5 1/2 short years (all of which were considered classics), I started to scoff at certain [...]

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Cathy: Moms Who Blog

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2010 | 13 Comments »

crosspost from musings in mayhem
Moms Who Blog: It sounds like a support group for mother’s who can’t help themselves from blogging, a twelve-step program.
But it’s a growing population of those of us who need to tell our stories, lament the woes and record the triumphs of our day in and day out, a way to [...]

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Michelle: Dreaming in 2010

Posted in Michelle, tagged , , on January 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Hello, my name is Michelle Norton and I’m about to become a full-time freelance writer.
I had to practice that. In front of a mirror for about 24 hours but then I sucked it up and went to my current boss to tell her I was quitting.
Background
I’m a web designer and a single mom. Back [...]

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Another mother writer’s NaNoWriMo win

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Stephanie Stambaugh, a blogger and writer living in Colorado, is a friend of Studio Mothers via Twitter. I had noted that Stephanie — also a mother of two — successfully completed NaNoWriMo, and I asked her how she pulled off that feat. Stephanie recently posted a blog-post response, which you may enjoy: Finally, My Post-NaNoWriMo [...]

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Applause

Posted in Brittany, tagged , , on December 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Our long-time blogmate Brittany Vandeputte was recently published in the Petigru Review! I stole the following from Brittany’s blog:
Yesterday I received my two free author copies of The Petigru Review. It felt good to hold a big chunk of a book in my hands, flip to the table on contents, and see my name listed [...]

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Help a writer out: No Haikus

Posted in Debra, tagged , , on December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Our friend Debra Bellon, a writer and filmmaker who lives in Toulouse, has a two-year-old son and a brand-new baby girl. Debra has been creatively percolating during the past couple of years, as many of us do while we’re otherwise occupied caring for little ones. To that end, Debra just launched a new blog site [...]

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