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The Workbooks are read, the assignments finished, the schedule set. As I prepare to leave for my very first MFA residency on Friday, I am mostly excited. In just two days, I’ll be travelling back to Kentucky to stay at

Working in a library surrounded by page after page of information, one begins to wonder about things. The kids that come into the library regularly are always the same kids, and even in just the short amount of time that

When I graduated and left school in December, my life became a constant swirl of crazy. With tons to do to get ready for a wedding followed by a 12 hour move, my writing habits were voluntarily chucked out the

With four days left in the month of November, I am super excited to report that this year’s attempt at NaNoWriMo resulted in a win! I have never won early, so this year when I reached the 50,000 word goal

Well here we are folks, in the midst of the last week of NaNoWriMo that will be free of cooked birds and cracked family members. Before the festivities launch their full-fledged assault on our word counts and try desperately to

Day twelve of November’s month-long torturous noveling endeavor is here, my friends, which means that even though many of us are still slogging through the muck that is Week Two, there are just three short days until the halfway point.

With National Novel Writing Month now in full swing, it can be tempting to look back on the 8,335 words (or more… or less) you’ve written and see how awful they are, ugly, just-hatched things that have yet to grow

  It’s that time of year again! No, I don’t mean the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays or finals week crunch times that are slowly creeping up on us from out of nowhere. I mean those 30 days of literary abandon