Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • Teacher appears

    What a challenging few days it’s been, watching the news, hearing the yelling match across the divide of people who see different things in the videos of the shooting of an American citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. In the middle of all that, I stumbled on a New York Times interview with…

  • The editing mountains

    I always underestimate the time it takes to edit. It’s like hiking in the mountains. You’re walking along, focused on what’s in front of you. You estimate the time it will take to get through 80,000 or so words of a novel. Then you come around a bend in the story and you just stop.…

  • New friends drop by

    Other bloggers stopped for a visit here this past week, one from (I think) Helsinki and the other from Vancouver. Their blogs made me happy in two quite different ways. Helsinki (I think) has the best blog title ever: The Snow Melts Somewhere. Maybe it appeals to me, having grown up in Canada and then…