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I Don’t Know What Happened, But I Know I Didn’t Like It

Posted by Joanne Huspek

This is my heart. Gray. Lifeless. Foggy. Heavy like a wet sponge. NO WONDER I CAN’T WRITE! *palm slap to the forehead* Those terrible occurrences of last year have followed me into this year. Just when I thought it couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Sorrow and Art

Posted by Joanne Huspek

I’ve been Facebook chatting with several people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives right now. Suicides, break-ups, aging parents, adult children with mega-problems. In my previous post, I mentioned that I have difficulty speaking. It’s not that I can’t … Continue reading →

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Why I Am NOT Participating in NaNoWriMo This Year

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Don’t get me wrong; I LOVE NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, which starts November 1 and ends November 30. If you’re a procrastinating writer like me, you need every cattle prod or device out there to kick you into … Continue reading →

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Thanking Those Who Have Helped Along the Way

Posted by Joanne Huspek

A shot of my Acknowledgments Page, FINDING CADENCE As a writer, there are some forms of writing that I enjoy more than others. For example, I relish writing scathing letters to editors and politicians, angry rants to restaurants that have … Continue reading →

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I Can’t Help But To Write What I Know

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I had written a blog post a month or so back (I’d look for it and link it, but it’s Monday and I’m busy and besides that I’m totally lazy) where I had admitted (more or less) that my novels … Continue reading →

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I’m SO Ready for San Francisco!

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This will be a short post, because I have a thousand things to do before I leave Thursday (way early) morning. 1. I am so ready for San Francisco! I’m always ready for the City by the Bay, but right … Continue reading →

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Writing, Editing, and Twelve Days to the San Francisco Writers Conference

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For some reason, I felt that 2013 was a banner year in my writing endeavors. Never mind that it took me the entire year to re-work and re-edit my first manuscript…even though that was a major undertaking full of major … Continue reading →

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