Category Archives: womens literature

There’s a Reason I’ve Been Mostly Quiet…

Posted by Joanne Huspek

It has to do with the fact that I’ve been busy getting my novel ready for release. Can we say “YAY” or SQUEE? Or sympathize and pray for my soul? 🙂 Yes, I’ve decided to publish FINDING CADENCE myself and … Continue reading →

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Hunting and Bagging the Elusive ‘Write’ Time

Posted by Joanne Huspek

It’s Monday, and my Real Life plate runneth over. Our office survived four days of painters, which is no easy task.  (Think trying to paint around an explosion, and you’ll know what the painters had to deal with.) Today’s enrollments … Continue reading →

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Writing: On Which I Yield to the Idea of a Muse

Posted by Joanne Huspek

A long, long time ago (holy cow, five years ago!), I wrote this article about kicking my muse to the curb. Thanks to a workshop at the San Francisco Writers Conference this year, I have changed my mind. When I … Continue reading →

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Sparks Fly During The San Francisco Writers Conference

Posted by Joanne Huspek

It had to happen. After weeks of Internet back and forth on the self-publishing versus traditionally publishing options (which kind of blossomed into WWIII), with articles like this,  and this, and this monstrosity of a blog post that took me … Continue reading →

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

Posted by Joanne Huspek

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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Querying…Again

Posted by Joanne Huspek

OK, so I’ve been over this manuscript, what? A million times? Rough draft, second rough draft, third rough draft, final draft, three edits with MR ED, after which, a year of self-imposed edits, one edit with a completely different, third … Continue reading →

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Writers, Please Don’t…

Posted by Joanne Huspek

Having just spent the better portion of a year editing my Epic Tome (and just completing a perfunctory proofreading a few days ago), I have to pat myself on the back. It’s been a long, strange, hard, ass-kicking journey since … Continue reading →

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