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Dragging My Ass Out of the Mire

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Source The blogosphere's collective thought waves can really help a girl out of a major rut. My writing is on the brain all the time. They just haven't made it to the page in a long time. Every time I sit down, my chest constricts and I panic. It's crap. Then I feel like crap. Once the self-deprecating thoughts suffocate my motivation, I question my goal to be a writer. Waaaah! Waaaah! Waaaah! Note to self: Get your shit together. So, I bring you a few blog posts that reinvigorated my motivation. Around of Words in 80 Days Becky Taylor talks about a writing challenge that helped her make small writing goals to get her writing  every  day. Writing Daily C. Hope Clark discusses writing daily as well. She suggests writing in a specific form every day (prompt, short story, novel, poetry, etc). Here are a few blog posts I found insightful and interesting:  "Forget Your Weaknesses; Attack Your Strengths" A Thrillerfest workshop with Mark Tavani J...

NCF Tuesday: Summer Reading Mania; Glimmer Train Deadline Today; Simple Dog Goes for Joy Ride

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News Literary Blending with Fantasy/Sci-fi The Wall Street Journal discusses the line between genre and literary fiction, low and high art. Alexandra Alter dives into the  literary novelists’ struggle to compete with ubiquitous fantasy and science fiction.  Is the literary novelist’s move to blend their genre with popular fiction going to help or hurt them?     Analysis of All 7 Harry Potter Novels Sean Smith at The Boston College Chronicle talks about Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Emerita Vera Lee’s On the Trail of Harry Potter , “which she touts as the first book-length literary analysis of all seven Harry Potter volumes.” She breaks from previously published analyses to focus on how J.K. Rowling created Harry Potter and why. Would you purchase the literary analysis of the beloved YA series? Summer Reading List The New York Times runs down a list of 19 promising new books to keep you busy during the summer. Janet Maslin shows us that ...