Monthly Archives: February 2010
20 Sleeps til Spring
The Cadbury Cream Eggs are on store shelves. The days are longer. The sky more blue. The shutters are beginning to rattle gently as the March winds lie in wait—soon to be April showers to grow the May flowers. What … Continue reading
Filed under Group meetings
Poetry as a symptom of insanity
This is from my Forgotten English word-of-the-day calendar: metromania: A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane. —Rev. John Boag’s Imperial Lexicon of the English … Continue reading
Filed under poetry
Time well spent
Here’s a little midnight love for those of you choosing blog-fog (online form of brain-drain) over sleep. Check out Writer Unboxed. Jane Friedman writes a great piece titled: Audience Development: Critical to Every Writer’s Future that debunks the myth that fiction writers don’t … Continue reading
Filed under Motivation
Here’s what’s blowing my skirt up (Lori)
Ok. My Skirt. Nothing’s been blowing up there of late (my two kids are tag-teaming me with Norwalk-type illnesses, so if it’s not puking or pooping on me, I haven’t had time to notice it…). I just finished Diana Peterfreund’s … Continue reading
Filed under The collective skirt
Sexy-Times: Trials & Tribulations
I’m revising the final act of my manuscript and I’ve hit a wall. A sex wall, to be exact. You see, there’s a romantic, um, encounter that occurs and I’ve been struggling with both how far my heroine goes with … Continue reading
Filed under Starting up, Trials and Tribulations
Here’s what’s blowing up my skirt and other fun (Beckie)
Cool addition to the blog, Maria! Here’s some interesting trivia (just because it’s fun). 2009 happened to mark the 55th anniversary of the filming of Marilyn Monroe’s skirt scene—the famous picture of Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by … Continue reading
Filed under The collective skirt
Here’s what’s blowing up my skirt (Maria)
This will be the first of a regular feature on the Restless Writers’ blog about what we’re into–what we’re reading, what we’re working on, the dreams we had last night, whatever we feel like sharing. (Thanks to Lori for inspiring … Continue reading
Filed under The collective skirt
BPL short story contest winners announced!
The winners of the Burlington Public Library All-nighter Short Story Contest were announced at a special reception on January 27. Congratulations to Karen Kachra, Jennifer Mook Sang and—me! I’m very proud to have placed third with my short story “Poison … Continue reading
Filed under Awards and contests
Maria McDonald
bjas
Lori Dyan
questionimpossible
