Showing posts with label the writing life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the writing life. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

DIY Experimentation

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by Catherine Dilts I’ve noticed clever graphics on social media by fellow authors. I wondered whether they were developed by their publish...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Bearing Fruit – On Your Own Terms

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by Catherine Dilts I picked my first tomato Saturday. Colorado backyard gardeners compare their efforts to other regions at their emotiona...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

A Garden Surprise

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 Catherine Dilts Summers in Colorado tend to be go-go-go. We want to fit in all the outdoor adventures that don’t involve snow sports. The...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

New Directions

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Catherine Dilts It's finally feeling like summer. With the warmer weather, my attitude toward the writing and publishing life is warming...
Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Peonies and Pine Pollen

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by Catherine Dilts Warmer weather is finally here on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s not uncommon for us to receive snow i...
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Friday, April 04, 2025

Tariffied: Impacts on Publishing, Writing, & Creativity

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Hello, Type M Readers & Writers: Shelley here reporting from an island in the Philippine Sea and feeling very weirded-out by everything ...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Encouraging Your Muse

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 Catherine Dilts Waiting passively for “the muse” to whisper in your ear is like sitting in a dark room waiting for someone to turn on the...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Look at Me! (But I Don't Want to be Famous)

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Hi, I'm Shelley! Nice to meet you.  If there’s one aspect of this writing life that wickedly grins and winks it’s baleful eye at me, it’...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Preparation

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by Catherine Dilts  Gardening and fiction writing both begin with a dream. In writing, it’s the spark of a story idea. In gardening, the dre...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Life on Fire

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This has been an exhausting summer for us at Chez Casey. My husband has been dealing with doctors, hospitals, procedures, infusions, ad naus...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

A Bad Writing Day and a Good Review

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I had a good writing day yesterday. Today, not so much. To begin with, I awoke to an infestation of ants in my kitchen. There are very few ...