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5 Tips on Self-Publishing Your Book

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For book writers, the publishing process is often a fearful mystery. Self-publishing a book can intensify this mystery, because it can seem like you’re all on your own, with no clear place to start. Although I’ve managed Writers.com since 2019, it wasn’t until this past year that I learned the self-publishing process myself, while helping […]

Writing for Mindfulness: The Foundations of Mindful Writing

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Being present, focusing on images, appreciating goodness: these are the foundations of mindful writing. Writing for mindfulness is a skill that any writer can develop, helping you to sharpen your language and keep it succinct. What are the foundations of mindful writing? Let’s explore what writing for mindfulness means in depth. What “Mindful Writing” Means […]

There But For The Grace of God

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The phone rings and you don’t know if it’s the phone or the new, beeping pill dispenser your husband bought so he could leave you alone in the house for long stretches of time.  Before that, you were in charge of knowing which gaily colored pill was which and when to take the Rasagiline, or […]

To Magic

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Every mother dreams of the day her daughter gets married. She prays it’s to a man that will love her with all his heart. A man who will take on the role of head of her family with certainty and a little fear. Someone who desires to uplift and encourage her. Today, I am overjoyed […]

Stick Figures

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12Grandmother. Ten years old and I’m kneeling on the carpet next to her. She smells like flowers with English Garden names: peony, jasmine, narcissus; she smells like black and white movies, where heroines smoke PallMalls like they mean it. She grips the pins between smudged red lips, her breath coming in emphysematic wheezes, moving on […]

Literary Agents: What They Do and How to Find One

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What does a literary agent do? And where do you go about finding a literary agent? When you’re ready to submit a manuscript for publication, you might solicit top literary agents to represent your work. But, like most things in the writing business, actually getting a literary agent—especially a good one—proves much more difficult than […]

Proof of Life

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There is a tiny person under my roof this morning.  She arrived two days ago, and I fussed and worried and sterilized and kept the appropriate social distance, until finally her mother placed her gently in my arms.  I cannot adequately describe how it felt to hold another human close, after the terrible, endless Covid […]

My Blessed Boy on the Streets…and my Teacher of all Things Good

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Previously Published in U.S. Catholic.  A sometimes lonely leftover phone booth stands on a street corner in Portland, Oregon. When a street person feels so inclined, he or she can use the one-time pay phone, now free of charge, to call friends and/or family anywhere in the world. And inside the phone booth, profound words […]

Interview: Barbara Henning Discusses “Prompt Book” and Finding the Inspiration to Write

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If you’re a writer looking for prompts, inspiration, or lessons on literary movements, then Writers.com instructor Barbara Henning‘s new book Prompt Book (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2021) is your solution. Naturally, we were curious about how an author goes about collecting and publishing a book of prompts. Below is our full interview with Barbara on Prompt Book […]
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