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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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Cathy: No Nanowrimo win here

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »

crossposted from musings in mayhem
I am happy to have taken part in NaNoWriMo this year for the first time. It put me into a good lead on a companion book to my first novel, and now both need some serious editing. I lost my momentum between lots of doctor appointments for my whole family, getting [...]

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What IS NaNoWriMo, anyway?

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on November 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Courtesy Inky Elbows — thanks, Debbie!

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NaNoWriMo: Productivity…?

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on November 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Courtesy Inky Elbows — a great site for all procrastinating writers!

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Cathy: An update on the progress or not of my nano novel

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , , , on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »

crossposted from my personal blog
Life happens,
doctors happen,
and this past week, a lot of doctor appointments happened and other sundry bits of attending to sick self, sick kids, etc. So in the interest of pediatrics, Nanowrimo fell somewhat behind and has been having trouble catching back up. also, I really got walloped by news of Brother [...]

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On Balancing Life and Writing

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

OK, so many of this blog’s readers are too busy with NaNoWriMo to do much blog surfing — or anything else besides keeping chaos at bay while trying to bang out the daily word count. This month, the word “balance” is probably not in your vocabulary. That said, if you can find a minute or [...]

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Alison: 5 Ways to Be a Writer When You’re Not Writing

Posted in Alison, tagged , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I recently made the acquaintance of blogger and writer Alison Wells via Twitter, which just goes to show you that Twitter is NOT the useless waste of time that some people think it is.
Alison, who lives in Ireland, describes herself this way: “I am a full-time mother of four young children. Writing is the space [...]

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Wearing away the edges of illusion

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Wish Studio is at it again with this beautiful, personal post on motherhood and creativity — with dreamy photographs by the author, Christina Rosalie Sbarro. I post an excerpt here, but do go read the entire post.
Before my sons, my life was full of busyness, and creativity was often pushed to the margins as my [...]

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Amanda Craig on motherhood and creativity

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I came across a worthwhile blog post from Amanda Craig, British writer and journalist, about writing and motherhood. Interesting (or depressing?) to note that she doesn’t think it really gets any easier as the kids get older. An excerpt:
To write properly demands unbroken concentration, and solitude. You can just about manage a couple of hours [...]

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Motherhood, writing, and nature

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Coming in January 2010: The Motherhood Muse, a new blog and literary magazine that you will definitely want to read. You might also be inspired to submit your own work. Check it out:
The Motherhood Muse is a literary magazine, created to encourage mother writers to rediscover and reconnect with nature through their bodies, minds, and [...]

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