Category: Life
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NaPoMo, Day 14: When I have fears that I may cease to be
It’s the last day of transcriptions for The Read Room’s celebration of National Poetry Month. Today’s selection is “When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats. Keats is a brilliant poet, and this poem is the quintessence of how he is remembered: as “one whose name was writ in water“. […]
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Sick on Sunday
I am getting sick for the first time in…almost a year and a half. Seventeen months. Thanks to good habits in sleep, diet, and exercise I haven’t been sick since the October I was visiting a friend in Chicago and shivered through all the night on the sofa beside the living room window. (Lesson learned: […]
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The Reality Award
So I was tempted to open with something like, “What am I up to? Oh, not much– just keepin’ it REAL, kids,” and then I realized nobody says “keepin’ it real” anymore. If they did. Ever. In actual conversation. Then I realized this revelation was appropriately ironic to the nature of the award which, if […]
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When did you know that you wanted to be a writer?
Happy Forum Friday! Today’s question is less business and more personal: When did you know what you wanted to be a writer? Personally, I’m somewhat iffy on believing in callings, but I feel I have always known I wanted to be a writer. If I had to point to single revelation it would probably be […]
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Encouragement (& Laughs) for Writers
Happy Friday! This post comes in the midst of National Novel Writing Month, and I don’t know about you guys but as a writer I could really use some encouragement (and a few good laughs) right about now. I have been lagging in word counts almost since the beginning (the goal is to write approximately […]
Julie Israel 