Posts tagged 'writing'

Mandatory Gratitude – Places I’ve Loved in 2012

By pam

November 19, 2012

It’s the week before Thanksgiving, the day we Americans try to stop and share our thanks for our many blessings with friends and family. As I think of the fate of others — the families uprooted and lives lost due to Hurricane Sandy, closer to home, the shooting at the Sikh temple — it is [...]

OTHER TAGS: Aspen, Bread Loaf in Sicily, Edward Hirsch, Erice, gifts and blessings, gratitude, Luis Urrea, Lynn Freed, mandatory gratitude, Marianne Boruch, Paris, Sicily, Thanksgiving, travels to spark writing ideas | Comments: 2 Comments

Pinktober, Almost Over – TY!!!!!

By pam

October 23, 2012

Today I am revisiting a post from last year about my feelings about Pinktober, about being a breast cancer survivor and how the many hats we wear – as mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, employees, bosses, parents, survivors, etc. – inform our writing. Pink season is descending again. Those products and ribbons are appearing everywhere. [...]

OTHER TAGS: breast cancer, cancer survivors, Pam Parker, pinktober, writers wear many hats | Comments: Add a comment

The Thrum of Autumn

By pam

September 28, 2012

Some writers (at least this one) are sensitive and attuned to the ticking clock of life. Autumn — my favorite time of year — thrums with reminders to breathe in and fully experience your life, here and now. Often at this time of year, my mind wanders to a moment in my childhood on [...]

OTHER TAGS: autumn, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mount Holyoke College, Pam Parker, seasons, seasons of life, seasons of writing | Comments: 6 Comments

Icebergs & Backstory – What holds your story up?

By pam

September 24, 2012

“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. “ Ernest Hemingway At the Bread Loaf in Sicily conference which I’m recently back from, my instructor, the brilliant [...]

OTHER TAGS: backstory, BreadLoaf in Sicily, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway iceberg quote, icebergs, Lynn Freed, Red Oak Young Writers | Comments: Add a comment

Submit It Season

By pam

September 4, 2012

September feels like new beginnings. Depending on where you live, there’s the noticeable waning of summer temperatures and daylight hours. Some people dwell on the ending of summer, rather than the beginning of fall. Labor Day weekend – marked by many as the unofficial end of summer – also seems to be a popular time [...]

OTHER TAGS: beginnings, fall, Missouri Review, submission season, submitting writing, upper Michigan | Comments: 2 Comments

How to Keep Writing When You’ve Got to Go to Work First

By pam

June 8, 2012

Today I’m happy to bring you a guest post from Laurel Landis. Her work has appeared in Rosebud Magazine, Wisconsin People & Ideas, on the radio at WUWM (listen to her here around the 8:22 mark) and excerpted in Judy Bridge’s “Shut Up and Write.” Her short story “Scherzo” is in press at Lost in Thought, a new [...]

OTHER TAGS: Alyson Hagy, avoiding the internet, Boswell Books, day job and writing career, Judy Bridges, Laurel Landis, Lost in Thought, Rosebud Magazine, Shut Up & Write, Wisconsin People & Ideas | Comments: 6 Comments