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And Now, Back to Reality

Posted by Joanne Huspek

It was yet another successful San Francisco Writers Conference! I was able to take in many helpful workshops, met old friends, made new ones, saw my editor, who gave me insight on what I was doing (sometimes I write and … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Decade, New Adventures…With Ghosts!

Posted by Joanne Huspek

Much has happened since my last post: 1. My Editor for Life is hard at work editing An Education for Addie. So far I think I’m in for a title change and a rearranging of the first few chapters. This … Continue reading →

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And Now, For a Little (or a Lot of) Editing

Posted by Joanne Huspek

The upside to never throwing any writing away? You will always have something to edit. I didn’t participate in NaNoWriMo this year, but I didn’t have to. I have at least four (FOUR!) novels on my external drive in various … Continue reading →

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The Ups and Downs of the Write Life

Posted by Joanne Huspek

Image: Creative Commons Well, it had to happen. After a whirlwind of a July, where I wrote more than 20K words – they flowed like never-ending wine, the good stuff, mind you – August ground to a horrible crawl. It … Continue reading →

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Re-Reading For Pleasure and Education

Posted by Joanne Huspek

Well, I am coming into the final stretch of my current work in progress, An Education for Addie, which is why I’m not blogging or writing anything else lately. I’m on a tear, and I’m not going to abandon my … Continue reading →

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Writing Without Time

Posted by Joanne Huspek

This morning, I did a little clean up on my mother’s grave. See that little juniper tree to the right? We planted it about twenty years ago, the intention was to keep it to bonsai size as a tribute to … Continue reading →

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How Writing a Novel is Like a Run to the Shrine

Posted by Joanne Huspek

A few weeks ago on a Saturday (May 18), I completed one more thing on my ‘bucket list’ – which isn’t really a list because it’s not even big enough to fit into a bucket. I signed up for and … Continue reading →

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