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Wordless Wednesday: Creatures in my Backyard
Posted by ladybuddha on February 22, 2012
http://ndcollier.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/wordless-wednesday-creatures-in-my-backyard/
Writing Publicly
One of my goals/determinations for 2012 is to write and publish meaningful, well-received pieces. My first one (yay!) is linked below. I had the pleasure of working with a brilliant editor, Kelly Virella, and I’m deeply appreciative of her guidance and wisdom. I hope to write many more personal essays, advocacy pieces, and other works throughout 2012. Here’s to the first one!
Mama’s voicemail sounded an alarm. “I’m not feeling well. Call me back.” I returned her call right away. No answer. Heart pounding, eyebrows raised, I left a message in return, chiding her for scaring me by leaving mysterious messages and then refusing to answer the phone. In my nearly 30 years of life, I’d never heard her say anything so ominous.
Minutes later, I headed to our rendezvous point – the emergency room. She’d enlisted a neighbor to drive her and she’d arrive shortly. “I don’t have a good feeling about this,” I told my best friend’s voicemail. “I don’t think this is going to turn out well.”
Posted by ladybuddha on February 2, 2012
http://ndcollier.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/writing-publicly/
Writer, Professional, Good
Here are three questions I was recently asked about writing. I’m going to condense the questions, because when they were asked, they meandered across several paragraphs; they boil down to three sentences, which are: When may you call yourself a writer? When may you call yourself a professional writer? When may you say you are a good writer? These are three separate but related questions. Let’s start with the most fundamental. When may you call yourself a writer? I tend to be very small-c catholic on this …
Posted by ladybuddha on January 29, 2012
http://ndcollier.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/490/
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