On Where Ideas Come From (and how one evolved)

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

When I set out to design our 2010 holiday card, I began with a pile of odd sized scraps of printmaking paper I’d found while cleaning out a closet. My husband pointed out that the 2-1/2 x 10” paper scraps were not a customary greeting card shape and would not fit into standard envelopes. As logical [...]

In My Solitude

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

In my last post I wrote about turning my studio into a retreat, my own private Breadloaf, a one-woman MacDowell Colony. There my imagination would roam unhindered by worries about everything that’s going on in the world at large, and the publishing world in particular. Such a charming idea. But I want to change the [...]

Taking Time Out

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Waiting for the print-publishing world to settle down and start buying again a a real downer. You can start to spend way too much time trying to read the minds of editors and publishers. You wonder if you should change your style. Switch subjects? Do a complete rewrite of the manuscript you love?  And surely [...]

 


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