Today is Blog Action Day. This year the focus is on poverty. I feel that everyone should focus on propagating abundance rather than eliminating poverty. It’s much more useful to focus on the positive.
If anyone understands poverty and abundance, it’s writers. The 2006 US figures show that half of all writers earn between $34,850 and [...]
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Voltaire said, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Actually Voltaire said, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” As writers, we need to take these words to heart.
I know when I’m worrying over which font I used, and I’m spending time making sure that all the pages have exactly 25 lines, I [...]
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Recently the world lost several great writers. We lost the activist Grace Paley, societ dissident Solzhenitsyn, and Jeannette Eyerly, who wrote about serious social issues for teenage girls. However, the loss that most touches my heart is RubyLee Schneider.
She was a member of our local writing group. I had known her for about [...]
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