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Another Loose Sally

It’s a sign!

February 2, 2012

I have been obsessed with two things these last two weeks. One is writing-related, the other not. Because I have been watching my deadline for a blog essay loom ever closer, I have been telling myself there is a link between them, that I keep thinking about both because Writer Me is trying to make [...]

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Braving Bread Loaf

January 26, 2012

Three years ago, in her faculty speech for the Stonecoast MFA graduation, Suzanne Strempek-Shea handed the new graduates small white stickers with “I am a WRITER” in bold Times New Roman letters. She encouraged them to remember that they were writers first and foremost. “Nurture and feed the writer within,” she said. I tracked down [...]

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I Will Write

January 19, 2012

Since we took a break in December from Another Loose Sally posts and most other related Hunger Mountain updates, I used that time to draft my monthly posts through March, polish up a new story, and re-organize my writing space. You probably thought you were reading the wrong post there for a second, didn’t you? [...]

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My Love Affair with Slush

January 12, 2012

The January installment for our “Voices from Hunger Mountain” series comes from our Editor. I love my job. Most people I know can’t say this and really mean it. So I feel very lucky. I love my office, for one thing. It’s in College Hall, the stately old Vermont College of Fine Arts building, which [...]

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Apply Now!

January 6, 2012

This marks my first blog post I hope will inspire action. To that end I won’t waste any time telling you what I want you to do: Research and apply for fellowships and grants. Some of my colleagues here at Hunger Mountain have been asking me about the fellowship I won this fall. You should write [...]

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Sally’s Picks Nov. 28

November 28, 2011

Another Loose Sally’s “best of the web.” * So you write and write and write, and maybe you end up with a book. Then what? Check out this Life Cycle of the Book, which follows a project through 11 stages from writing to publicity. * Want to write memoir? “Don’t do it!” says Bill Roorbach [...]

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Confessions of a Horizontal Writer

November 23, 2011

I’m writing this blog post the same way I write everything else: just doing it. I didn’t plan. I didn’t get in the mood, whatever that is (sober and awake?). I read, I discussed, and now I’m writing. One draft. Two drafts. You and me and the baby make three. Before I went to writer school, [...]

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