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NaNoWriMo 2007: What it is
National Novel Writing Month: what it is and why I decided to give it a try this year. Continue reading
Breaking through on Ophelia
The last couple of days have been very productive with writing. Not so much with direct writing, as in breaking through a problem so that I can write. No offense, Ophelia, but that problem has been you: needing just a … Continue reading
Posted in Mistress of Woodland
Tagged Mistress of Woodland, writing
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Momentum through Mystery
It’s probably apparent just in how little I’ve written in this writing blog that I’ve not been writing as much as I would like to. In part due my mother’s death last November… in part lots of focus on my … Continue reading
Hiisi
(For the Scheherazade Project, on the theme of fear. Constructive criticism always welcome.) Last night I told Rozz, I’m not always at the edge of the pit, but I’m never far from it either. She said, That thing you call … Continue reading
Posted in depression, No Way Way, Nonfiction
Tagged Hiisi, Scheherazade Project, the pit
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Pomegranate tea
Pomegranate tea Originally uploaded by yksin. Copyright Melissa S. Green
Winner
Deb had a surprise for me when I came in to Side Street today after missing three or four weeks: I’d won a coffee card — the second time in my 12-year history of patronizing Side Street that mine was … Continue reading
Time to remind myself
I wear this pin on my hat. My brother & sister-in-law got me one of these pins for Christmas, or maybe it was my birthday, several years ago — maybe back in ’97 or ’98, because I remember telling people … Continue reading
Posted in About writing, Greens
Tagged death, Mom, William Spear, write hard die free
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Side Street’s George Gee
Speaking of Side Street Espresso, here’s a photo of one of its owners, George Gee, courtesy Jim Gottstein of TouchnGo.
Side Street Mel
It’s not imitation. I’ve been writing at cafés since about 1994 when, preparatory to entering the MFA Creative Writing program at UAA, a group of us began meeting weekly on Sundays at a little café on G Street in Anchorage, … Continue reading
Field of Words
On top of all the other blogs I’ve added to Blogspot, it seemed appropriate to add one especially devoted to my whole purpose for being on this planet: writing. I expect to share occasional snippets of writing here, along with … Continue reading